Thiel Capital
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Oct 16, 2026
Who REALLY Owns AI? The Billionaires Behind OpenAI, Elon Musk And Anthropic
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27:00Jack BenjaminGUEST
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.
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27:11Jack BenjaminGUEST
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.
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27:22Jack BenjaminGUEST
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.
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27:34Jack BenjaminGUEST
Kind of its own story there.
Waived Secret Programs Tied to Aliens, Mathematician Claims
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2:12Cristina GomezHOST
That was mathematician Eric Weinstein describing David Grusch's claims, and Weinstein is one of the few public figures who knows David Grusch personally.
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2:22Cristina GomezHOST
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.
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2:34Cristina GomezHOST
He is also someone who moves in the same circles as people at the center of UFO disclosure.
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2:40Cristina GomezHOST
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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AI voice company Hyper raises $6.3M to help automate 911 calls
Oct 12 · 1 Mention
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3:15speaker_0UNKNOWN
And this one is all about who you know, and in this case, who you know in Arizona.
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3:19speaker_0UNKNOWN
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.
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3:32speaker_0UNKNOWN
$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.
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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.
477. Amerikkka Intelligence
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13:01Edward Ongweso Jr.HOST
Michael Krastios is another one of the many field Manchurian candidates that have been set up.
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13:11Edward Ongweso Jr.HOST
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...
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13:26Edward Ongweso Jr.HOST
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.
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13:52Edward Ongweso Jr.HOST
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.
Russia’s worldview, disinformation, and the politics of influence with Dave Troy
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58:14Dave TroyGUEST
I don't know if people know that, but there's a guy named Jesse Michaels who has a podcast all about UFO stuff.
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58:19Dave TroyGUEST
And he's like an employee at like Thiel Capital.
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58:22Dave TroyGUEST
And Peter Thiel hosts an event called Hereticon that has like sessions on UFO stuff.
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58:28Dave TroyGUEST
So this is part of this agenda.