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Oct 16, 2026

Jack BenjaminGUEST
27:00
Um, he also co-founded Valar Ventures, which is another venture firm that's invested in, uh, o- other tech companies, um, notably like fintech, like Wise, which used to be called TransferWise.
Jack BenjaminGUEST
27:11
Um, he also launched a venture fund called Thiel Capital in 2011, uh, which was involved in some crypto investments in the company FTX, which obviously had its own scandal.
Jack BenjaminGUEST
27:22
That company has-- The venture capital firm has also, uh, invested in the far right conservative women's magazine, Evie Magazine, which has promoted pro-life practices and sort of disincentivized using birth control.
Jack BenjaminGUEST
27:34
Kind of its own story there.
Cristina GomezHOST
2:12
That was mathematician Eric Weinstein describing David Grusch's claims, and Weinstein is one of the few public figures who knows David Grusch personally.
Cristina GomezHOST
2:22
Weinstein made these comments on the Diary of a CEO with Steven Barlett, and Weinstein is a Harvard-trained mathematician and the former managing director of Thiel Capital, run by Peter Thiel.
Cristina GomezHOST
2:34
He is also someone who moves in the same circles as people at the center of UFO disclosure.
Cristina GomezHOST
2:40
In this interview, he vouched for Grusch as a witness, and he described the most hidden class of government secrecy and claims that some of these programs exist with aliens as their stated purpose.

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Oct 12 · 1 Mention

speaker_0UNKNOWN
3:15
And this one is all about who you know, and in this case, who you know in Arizona.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
3:19
Jack Selby, who is a managing director at Peter Thiel's Thiel Capital, has been quietly building a VC firm called Copper Sky Capital, and they are currently raising a $300 million second fund according to a recent regulatory filing.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
3:32
$300 million for a second fund is a serious number that puts Copper Sky in the big leagues of institutional VC, not the scrappy seed stage world.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
3:40
What makes this story really compelling is how Selby has been sourcing his deals, leaning heavily into his Arizona network to get into some genuinely hot companies.
Edward Ongweso Jr.HOST
13:01
Michael Krastios is another one of the many field Manchurian candidates that have been set up.
Edward Ongweso Jr.HOST
13:11
throughout the executive office, like tripwires, right? So he was CFO at Thiel's Clarion Capital, then was a principal at, what do you call it, at the Thiel Capital, and then was...
Edward Ongweso Jr.HOST
13:26
uh feels uh chief of staff and then got hired eventually to work for the president in a variety of roles he was cto he was an undersecretary then he was a special advisor which he is now and he runs the office of science and technology policy so so sax is on that you know, he's co-chairing it with Michael Castillo.
Edward Ongweso Jr.HOST
13:52
So maybe he's competing with them, but maybe he's not, you know, since they are both aligned, right? But he doesn't have the direct control over crypto and he's no longer the White House AIs are.
Dave TroyGUEST
58:14
I don't know if people know that, but there's a guy named Jesse Michaels who has a podcast all about UFO stuff.
Dave TroyGUEST
58:19
And he's like an employee at like Thiel Capital.
Dave TroyGUEST
58:22
And Peter Thiel hosts an event called Hereticon that has like sessions on UFO stuff.
Dave TroyGUEST
58:28
So this is part of this agenda.

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