Thiel had said something to Wired magazine not long before this juncture, speaking not about the case but about an investment, that makes it clear how much he relished this kind of ignorance. It’s what he exploits, counts on even. “The things that I think I’m right about,” Thiel said, “other people are in some sense not even wrong about, because they’re not thinking about them.” In this sense, it’s an oversimplification to say that Gawker was wrong about the threat it faced. It was actually much worse. It was totally and utterly unaware of it—unaware
