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In 2016, Sam Taman He was increasingly looking to politics as a square where he could realize his high aspirations. In that fall, his former high school school, Nathan Watters, He visited San Francisco, accompanied by his new friend in a job interview. While the Watters friend was outside, Watters and Altman took lunch in a café near Dolores Park, not far from the 5 million Victorian. The topic has turned into the next general presidential elections between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Watters said that Altman told him that if Clinton does not win, you will run for the presidency: “If you don’t get it, and Trump no, I cannot get it again. I will do it. I will run. I think I can win,” and he reminds him. “I’m sure he thinks he can win.” Altman opposes that he said this, and says he never wanted to run for the presidency.
In early October, New Yorker Published Definition 11000 words From Altman who revealed the full range of his ambition for a public public for the first time. “Like every person in the Silicon Valley, Altman announces that he wants to save the world, unlike almost everyone, he has a plan to do so,” he wrote Boy friend. The article dealt with his presidential ambitions as a joke – a kind of things that was his brothers, Max and Jack, annoyed him while the three of them make pasta. After they indicated that in 2020, he will be thirty -five years old, and he is old enough to qualify legally, as Altman returned back: “Let’s send the Jewish gay man! This will work!”
Inside the YMBINATOR, the prestigious start -up speedy operation that he was running Altman for two years, surprised the partners before New Yorker Introduction account. “Sam told all the partners,” hey, this will be about YC “, and it ends up about Sam. Everyone was like,” Look we do not give curse, but like, why did you tell us this? “They had no long time to get rich. Days after its publication, YC faced a fuss more Peter ThilA 1.25 million dollar contribution to the Trump presidential campaign. Thil was a part -time partner in a part -time, a large role, and his support for Trump was barely secret; He appeared at the Republican National Congress during the summer, where he gave a speech where he announced that he was “proud to be gay.”
However, the extent of support – especially in light of the leakage on October 7, 2016, from Access to Hollywood The Trump tape was proud to seize women by the genitals – more than the liberal silicon valley that could be tolerated. After ten days, Ellen BaoThe former CEO of Reddit, who participated in the founding of a non -profit organization that focuses on diversity, said its organization cuts the relationships with YC because of its association with Thiel. “Because of his continuous contact with YC, we are forced to cut our relationship with YC.” “Today it is clear to us that our values are not alignment.” Tumblr co -founder Marco Traint It was more reference to the relationships between YC, Thiel and Trump. “This literally pays a huge amount of money to support racist sex intolerance with increasing allegations of multiple sexual assaults,” he wrote.
Sincerity, Taman was also confusing why Thiel supports someone like Trump. They had several talks on this topic. Al -Taman said: “I did not try to tell people not to vote for Trump.” “I was really trying to understand it.” But when the Internet began to melt Thil’s support, Altman interfered with a strong defense of both his friend and the principle of intellectual freedom. Thiel did not agree in this regard – in fact, he found that Trump was “an unacceptable threat to America” and “inappropriate to be president” – but “YC will not shoot at someone to support him as a major candidate for the party.”
When Trump won, he destroyed. He tried to prevent her in the only way he knew – by financing and creating a part of the software, in this case a “turbo tax for voter registration” called Voteplz. He now turned back to a symbol, building a website called Track Trump to measure how President Trump’s actions during the first hundred days made his campaign promises. And use Facebook to request the introductions of a hundred Trump voters throughout the country so that he can ask them directly about their decision; Publish his blog results. One of Altman’s point of view has reached the heart of what many Democrats failed to realize: “You can all defeat Trump next time, but not if you continue to ridicule us, refuse to listen to us, and cut us.”
Trump’s disturbing victory immediately turned into Thil to the strongest political force in Silicon Valley, after he largely stood up to a choir of haters because of his long contradictory shot, and prevailed. (Netflix CEO Red Hastings, A member of the Facebook board of directors had gone to the extent of his attempt to push his fellow member Thiel, on the pretext that his support for Trump showed a “catastrophic ruling”.) For his part, the decision to take it: Should he really follow the presidential tour that Watters told about? Or should it run for something else? Should he nominate positions at all, or should he try to recruit others to do so in his position?
Taman still wants to understand Trump’s victory. A call to put it in contact with Charles JohnsonRight blog on the right and the political processes that worked with Thiel to draw the destruction of the Gawker Media Blog. Johnson had come through conservative campus policy and toured Taker Carlson‘s The daily caller Before starting its own outlet, Gotnews. In 2014, after Traded stone He turned a story about the rape of an alleged gang at the University of Virginia, which later retreated, Johnson published the full name of the alleged victim – in violation of the journalistic rules – and a picture of the wrong woman, who was later apologized for. That caught the indispensable attention GookerAnd, which was called Johnson, “the worst journalist on the web” and formed a series of wild allegations – “There is no evidence that Chuck Johnson was arrested in 2002 on charges of installing a sheep into a fence and pushing it” – as a banner comment on what is a comment on what Gooker It was implicitly the fast and wicked brand of Johnson.
Johnson sued Gawker Media on charges of defam Valley In 2007, according to Max ChavakinA book on Thail, conflictJohnson joined the Thiel Crusader, which eventually settled on financing a secret lawsuit Hulk Hogan To invade privacy after Gawker posted a hidden video clip of him having sex with his friend’s wife. Gawker Media lost the case and applied for bankruptcy in 2016. (To this day, a few things that make Thiel are more than remembering the dismantling of what he still calls the “terrorist organization in Manhattan”.)
