”They’ll be in less of a hurry to point to their own work and say, We made this happen.”īiddle would also frequently mock Andreessen’s physical appearance, once describing the bald, portly investor as “the Milky Way Galaxy’s wealthiest hard-boiled egg.” He also penned a piece alleging that Andreessen and his wife Laura had divorced, though they remain married to this day. “When the next downturn happens, Andreessen and friends will be eager to point back at these tweets and say I told you so,” he wrote. Lets assume for the sake of the thread its all 100 honest. I say quasi because while they were naked and messing about, he clearly states they did not have sex. “It’s hard to be around Peter and not think, ‘I have to get smarter,'” he once told Fortune.Īndreessen was a favorite target for Biddle, who would often hold up the investor’s public comments as examples of Silicon Valley’s self-righteousness and hypocrisy. When Andreessen posted a rant on Twitter predicting a downturn for startup funding, Biddle argued that Andreessen himself was to blame. Gawker has published a story that claims an anonymous individual had a quasi one-night stand with Christine ODonnell 3 years ago. Netscape founder and prominent investor Andreessen sits on Facebook’s board with Thiel, and also guest lectured at Thiel’s Stanford class on entrepreneurship. Thiel was one of the earliest investors in Facebook, and continues to sit on its board. “Perhaps it was ‘physiques.’ Those British accents are tricky,” Thomas wrote. And in typical Gawker fashion, it skewered his second wife, model Talulah Riley (who was then his girlfriend) when she said she was attracted to Musk out of a mutual love for physics. Gawker also would comment regularly on Musk’s personal life, specifically on the aftermath of his divorce from his first wife Justine. Writer Owen Thomas once declared Musk’s plans to commercially release the car a “fantasy,” stating, “The only real source of financial viability Tesla now has is the power of Elon Musk’s imagination.” Gawker provided regular skeptical coverage of Musk’s ambitions for Tesla, which was suffering from financial woes in the lead-up to the launch of the Model S. Musk and Thiel worked together during the early days of PayPal, and Thiel later called Musk the “most impressive member” of the “PayPal mafia”-the term used in the Valley to describe the company’s first employees.
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