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A blogger who wants to replace democracy, and how close he is to Thiel
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Investment, friendship and a dinner question.
In 2017 Yarvin’s co-founder told The Verge that Tlön was funded by Founders Fund “but that Thiel is not personally involved.” [1]
The New Yorker’s 2025 profile reported that Thiel had become friends with Yarvin after reading his blog, though e-mails showed he was not “thrilled to be publicly associated with him at the time.” It reported that “once, at a dinner, Thiel quizzed Yarvin on how one might go about taking down Gawker,” and called Yarvin “the court philosopher of the Thiel-verse.” [2]
What we can’t tell you. Their private conversations are known only from what the writer saw.
Tlön’s co-founder says Founders Fund invested but Thiel was not personally involved.
Reports Founders Fund among Tlön’s investors and a private correspondence between Thiel and Yarvin from the late 2000s, based on messages the writer reviewed.
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Founders Fund invested in Tlön; its co-founder said Thiel was not personally involved.
Who says it: The Verge, The New Yorker.
The New Yorker reported their friendship and correspondence.
Who says it: The New Yorker.
Influence between friends is not documented in any measurable way.
Who says it: Commentators.
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