By the time of their second string of setbacks in 2013, Peter Thiel was already six-odd years into this dance with Gawker. Mr. A was two years in. Harder himself was nearly a year in. It was well into the end of its beginning and it had not begun well. If there was anything they had to be thankful for, it would be something they could not appreciate until later, and that would be that they were mercifully in the dark about all that remained ahead of them, all three long years of struggle and difficulty that were still to come.
