would become increasingly impossible to escape the fact that success as Thiel defined it would involve the destruction of a company that employed many people, people with families, people with no direct involvement in the article about him or similar articles about anyone else. Owen Thomas had left Gawker long ago, and sure, Nick Denton was still there, but there was no going after his business without catching Gawker’s accountant and janitor and back-end web developers in the crossfire. To paraphrase Hans Oster, Thiel would have to be the one to throw the bomb that liberated the conspiracy of
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