They needed him to be that. And for a while it had worked, well enough that in 2015, Mr. A had begun to seriously consider hiring his own public relations team to fight back in the war of words. But Thiel had resisted. Let them talk themselves into a stupor, he thought, let them convince the troops that this is in the bag. Let them make us look stupid, let them think they are winning. Let them use all that oxygen for bluster that they are going to need if they want to gather themselves enough to confidently say, “Lick ’em tomorrow!” Another maxim from Napoleon: “Never interrupt an enemy making
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