I. The Empty Chair at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue On 4 Sept 2025 the White House tech round-table looked like a Founders Fund off-site:Figma CEO—Thiel FellowScale AI—cap-table’d by FFDavid “Crypto-Czar” Sacks—PayPal Mafia consigliereZuckerberg—Thiel’s seed-check turned Meta-empirePalantir—prime contractor for Trump’s “Gold Dome” AI shieldThe only missing face was the don himself: Peter Thiel. Absence is power; the org-chart now answers to an empty chair.II. 15 Years of Dark-Money Chess While the...

I. The Empty Chair at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue On 4 Sept 2025 the White House tech round-table looked like a Founders Fund off-site:Figma CEO—Thiel FellowScale AI—cap-table’d by FFDavid “Crypto-Czar” Sacks—PayPal Mafia consigliereZuckerberg—Thiel’s seed-check turned Meta-empirePalantir—prime contractor for Trump’s “Gold Dome” AI shieldThe only missing face was the don himself: Peter Thiel. Absence is power; the org-chart now answers to an empty chair.II. 15 Years of Dark-Money Chess While the...