Needless to say I’ve felt very tied to this book for a lot of reasons and the story is something still that consumes a good part of my mind. Maybe it was a matter of fate, I don’t know. When Thiel had reached out to me in 2016 to talk and that conversation had turned toward the idea of doing a book and when Denton had reached out to me about some other writing I’d do and I mentioned my plans to him, I certainly did not expect that months later I’d find this incredible coincidence. I’d also find out in interviews that articles I’d written about Gawker over the years had been read by the conspirators during their planning phase and then I think the weirdest convergence was when I was asking Peter about the decision to ask Charles Harder, the lawyer who had represented Thiel’s interest from the beginning, to step aside and let a local counsel make the arguments in the courtroom in Florida. I had been researching the book for several months and interviewed all these people and then suddenly there I was actually in the legal record of the case.
#Gawker out of business series
Attached as an appendix to a pre-trial motion with a series of tweets from one of Gawker’s editors was a tweet I had sent back and then a response from the editor to me. Ryan Holiday: One of the strangest experiences of writing the book came when I was about two thirds of the way through reading what was close to 20,000 pages of legal documents. Did Peter Thiel or Nick Denton select you to write the chronicle of their feud? How and when did you realize that you needed to write a book about what happened? But in C onspiracy, everything Holiday tells us about Thiel’s meticulously planned plot to destroy Gawker-so he promises anyway-is true.Īndrew Keen: In explaining how you chose to write the book, you say, “it somehow dragged me in, too.” But I can’t imagine you being dragged into anything you didn’t want to do. Holiday’s first bestseller was entitled Trust Me, I’m Lying. Ryan Holiday’s new book, Conspiracy, focuses on the story of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel’s successful vendetta against the website Gawker. In our conspiratorial times, it’s hardly surprising that we have books about conspiracies.
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