Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/03/wicklow-hotel-cancels-secretive-peter-thiel-conference/

by 01-_- • 18 days ago

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Animats2• 18 days ago

"Cult-building" on the agenda?

trencedamp• 18 days ago

I guess if you think you're meeting is a secret then you can just say what your agenda is out in the open.

I mean there's no question these guys are the baddies, right? Look at every reason Peter Thiel has been in the news for the last year

zdw• 18 days ago

While Thiel's recent Antichrist talks could come to mind, this could just as easily be business speak, like in the Collins/Porras "Built to Last" where one of the points of great companies is "Cult-like culture".

Animats2• 18 days ago

Yes. There are companies which want "passion", which is really about employee motivation. Zappos, which is a shoe store, has been laughed at for this.

AvAn12• 18 days ago

Hotel wants to avoid undesirable guests. Seems reasonable.

Hoasi• 18 days ago

How is this secretive if venue is public?

Fordec• 18 days ago

It wasn't public until a an investigative journalist wrote an article about it after the membership of the group was exposed first. Per TFA:

A leaked schedule for the “retreat” hosted by Dialog, an invitation-only group

nobodyandproud4• 18 days ago

Working as intended. Though Peter Thiel will do his utmost to further destroy journalists, I’m sure.

mschuster91• 18 days ago

The group used to be pretty secretive and unknown until a hacker managed to discover Dialog not protecting their membership data properly - and found, among others, a shit ton of billionaires [1] and politicians including former German health minister Jens Spahn [2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/06/18/what-we...

[2] https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/das-spahn-netzwerk/2026/06/1...

dgellow• 18 days ago

Part of the list:

General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent

Army secretary Dan Driscoll

Hallie Hoffman, acting chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn)

Wes Moore, Maryland governor

Jared Polis, Colorado governor

Tom Lue, general counsel and head of governance at Google DeepMind

Randy Kroszner, a former governor of the Federal Reserve

Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League

Peter Goettler, president of the Cato Institute

Ryan Stowers, executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation

Roger Myerson, Nobel laureate economist

Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law

Neal Mohan, YouTube CEO

Scooter Braun, Music manager

Ezra Klein, political commentator

Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post reporter

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor

Sophia Bush, actress

Rick Warren, evangelical pastor

Elon Musk ($1.3 trillion)

Eric Schmidt ($40.1 billion)

Peter Thiel ($27.8 billion)

Henry Kravis ($12.2 billion)

Marcos Galperin ($6.8 billion)

Mike Cannon-Brookes ($7.7 billion)

Scott Cook ($4.4 billion)

Barry Sternlicht ($3.1 billion)

Nicolas Berggruen ($2.9 billion)

John Arnold ($2.8 billion)

Joe Lonsdale ($2.8 billion)

Reid Hoffman ($2.7 billion)

cmxch• 18 days ago

Find the hacktivist and ensure that that the book of law is thrown good and hard at them in court.

No different than if the opposition did the same to a left leaning/sympathizing group.

netsharc• 18 days ago

What did Taylor Swift and many celebs do yesterday at Madison Square Garden (a public venue)? All the news says she got married, but does that mean you're trusting the news media?

Public venue, private ("secret") event.

jareklupinski• 18 days ago

the highest net worth LAN party ever

gofreddygo• 18 days ago

Like area 51.

buran77• 18 days ago

It's safe to assume that once the secret location of the secretive conference stopped being so secret, the organizers and attendees went looking for a more private venue.

ares6232• 18 days ago

Whatever happened to all those 4channers going after the super secret cabal running the deepstate?

krapp2• 18 days ago

They voted for the cabal and shot up a pizzeria. Womp womp.

moogly• 18 days ago

They probably haven't even realized they were Steve Bannon's useful idiots.

guywithahat• 18 days ago

Aren’t most events at hotels “secretive”? Our company all hands certainly isn’t a public event. It’s seems reasonable that defense companies may not always want their events to be public and in newspapers

FireBeyond3• 18 days ago

Advertised? No. Secretive? No.

In all the company events and such that I've been to at hotels and casinos, there's usually signs in the lobby, "Welcome X", or at least on the screens or signs by conference room doors telling you exactly who is there (I will not pretend, and know, that this is not always the case. But it's generally fairly trivial to figure these things out.)

rsynnott• 17 days ago

In this case the hotel claims they weren’t told what it was.

Obscurity4340• 17 days ago

Does he still go on about being heterodox?

Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference

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