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BuzzFeed vs Gawker, AI’s impact on the future of media, and more with Semafor’s Ben Smith | E1733

This Week in Startups

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The Dangers of Being a Gay Man

Peter Thiel later said it wasn't actually the outing. The outing, it's a complicated word. Thiel wasn't in the closet to people who knew him,. It was very dangerous for him to be a gay man at that time. He had Saudi investors and he traveled to the middle east. Jonah Pretti didn't understand he was outmatched by Zuckerberg. There is no company he's acquired where the founders of those companies don't hate him.

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