Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

It hurts a lot when you are targeted by a group of gossip lovers/creators and Valleywag is a master at doing so. While it may have targeted many, Gawker‘s tech gossip column has definitely got quite a label from Peter Thiel. The CEO of PayPal and also a Facebook investor and hedge fund manager has called Valleywag the Al-Qaeda of the Silicon Valley (perhaps he avoids naming Owen Thomas the leader). While this sounds amusing, poor, or whatever categories you would put that in, to me it appears that Thiel had reached his melting point after being targeted on numerous occasions by Gawker. Plain frustration and anger to second it. I guess he had nothing better to do that just draw a comparison of the blog to terrorists. I was quite surprised reading:

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