In-depth explanation of Silicon Valley godfather Peter Thiel: How right-wing financiers in the United States are reshaping Wall Street and making the West Coast the new market maker?

From investing in Facebook to supporting Trump and Vance, Peter Thiel's influence spans Silicon Valley, Washington, and the global Capital Market. He is both a libertarian and a behind-the-scenes force for right-wing tech giants. In today's world, where Crypto Assets and AI are at the core of new era competition, this Silicon Valley venture capital legend is using “accelerationism” and “Western centrism” as weapons in an attempt to reshape America's political and economic landscape.

( This article is compiled from Zuo Ye's “The Turning Point of Crypto America: Peter Thiel in Historical Turning Points,” translated, supplemented, and compiled by Chain News )

Colonial Memory: The Contradiction of Peter Thiel, Who Opposes Authority Yet Hopes to Maintain Western Authority

Peter Thiel was born in 1967 and spent his childhood in Namibia, Africa, witnessing colonial rule and apartheid firsthand. This experience made him deeply resent authority, yet it also conflicted with his belief in maintaining Western dominance.

Unlike Musk's chaotic approach to political thought, Thiel's sources of inspiration are clearer: Ayn Rand's libertarianism, René Girard's theory of “mimetic desire,” and Leo Strauss's view of the spiritual foundations of Western civilization from ancient Greece to Rome, all lead him to believe that “technological innovation” is the only way to save the West.

Peter Thiel believes that Western civilization needs to be great again, and the path to greatness is through technological innovation, which requires the dismantling of regulatory barriers.

The Starting Point of PayPal's Gang: Starting from the Vision of Dollar Networking

In the late 1990s, Peter Thiel, along with David Sacks, Max Levchin, and others, founded PayPal with the core concept of “digitalizing the US dollar.” This not only satisfied Thiel's recognition of liberalism but also capitalized on the regulatory arbitrage preceding the trend of cashless transactions, as well as the global demand for the preservation of value in holding US dollars.

In 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion, and 35-year-old Thiel's net worth surged to $55 million. The “PayPal Mafia” thus became the most influential capital network in Silicon Valley, investing in and supporting emerging companies like Tesla and SpaceX, laying the groundwork for the fusion of technology and finance.

Over time, the network built by Peter Thiel, through his venture capital business, eventually grew into a massive giant tree that overshadowed everything.

From Investment to Politics: Peter Thiel's Right-Wing Layout

Peter Thiel is not just an investor, but a strategist with clear political objectives.

In 2003, he founded Palantir, becoming an important contractor for security agencies such as the CIA; in early 2004, he invested in Facebook and exited eight years later with a two thousand times return; in 2005, he established Founders Fund, focusing on investing in technologies that can “change human civilization.”

Source: Dealroom.co

He has also invested in the prediction market Polymarket and the Ethereum reserve company BitMine this year, both in his personal capacity and through his fund.

(Peter Thiel's fund leads the investment, Polymarket is valued at one billion dollars)

Today, he publicly bet on Trump in 2016 and continued to support him after Trump's defeat in 2020, entering the core of the Republican Party through Trump and Vance. In contrast to Soros's role for the Democratic Party, Peter Thiel is seen as the “dark money backer of the Republican Party.”

The spiritual banner of the Silicon Valley right: Making the West great again with technology.

Influenced by the thoughts of Girard and Strauss, Thiel believes that “technological acceleration” can make the West great again. From Mars colonization to life sciences, he argues that all regulatory barriers should be dismantled to allow innovation to advance at an unprecedented pace.

His accelerationism philosophy resonates with the effective altruism of SBF, the founder of FTX who is in prison, and Musk's long-termism. The ultimate goal is not personal gain, but to uphold the survival of “Western civilization” and to use “technological breakthroughs” as tools and spiritual symbols.

Silicon Valley Takes Over Wall Street and Washington: Crypto and AI Technology Become Key

Peter Thiel's influence is not only reflected in his investment ventures, but also in his attempts to change, and even his success in changing, the balance of power structure between the East and West coasts of the United States.

In the past, Wall Street on the East Coast monopolized finance and politics, but now, the crypto and AI giants of Silicon Valley on the West Coast, through Thiel's capital and political layout, are gradually replacing the traditional financial elite:

With the integration of technology and finance, the balance of political power in Washington will gradually shift. This is the subtext of Crypto Assets and AI, allowing right-wing tech giants to take over everything on Wall Street, in the United States, and even around the world.

Peter Thiel's “Western Renaissance” grand dream

From founding the Stanford Review to building today's right-wing tech empire, Peter Thiel has been driving a technology-driven “Western Revival.” In addition to being a Silicon Valley investor, he is also a practitioner of accelerationism with a philosophical mission.

In his eyes, encryption and AI technology are tools to make the West great again and a barrier against external economic entities. This seemingly low-key venture capital giant is rewriting the future of America and the world in his own way.

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