The presence of peter thiel—the emblem of the conservative right in Silicon Valley—has grown this big; honestly, it feels like it changed all at once over the past few years.

At the White House Tech Conference on September 4, it was immediately clear just how far his influence has spread. The head of Figma, the founder of Scale AI, Meta CEO Zuckerberg, and David Sacks, the crypto minister in the Trump administration—somehow, all of them are connected to peter thiel.

It started in 1995, when he and David Sacks co-authored *The Myth of Diversity*. After that, by the time he was 35 and had taken in $55 million at PayPal, he was no longer just a tech entrepreneur. The original $500,000 investment in Facebook turning into more than $1 billion, his founding of Palantir, and his launching of Founders Fund in 2005—everything was part of a single long-term vision.

What peter thiel was truly aiming for wasn’t just making money, but building a new power structure to replace the financial elite of Wall Street. Through technology, crypto assets, and AI, replacing the traditional ruling class of the East Coast with West Coast tech forces—that is his 15-year plan.

His intellectual background, which idealizes the rule of the “philosopher king” in ancient Greece, is deeply influenced by the philosopher René Girard and Leo Strauss. Reconstructing Western civilization by removing regulatory barriers and maximizing technological innovation with an accelerationist approach—this is his ultimate vision.

In 2016, he bet on Trump in a Silicon Valley dominated by Democrats, and even after his defeat in 2020, he kept investing; he also helped cultivate politicians like JD Vance—everything was part of this larger strategy. peter thiel uses money as a tool of ideology. If George Soros represents the Democrats’ dark side, then peter thiel is the Republicans’ dark side.

Looking at the current political landscape of the Trump administration, you can see that crypto, fintech, and AI practitioners on the West Coast have been gradually replacing the traditional Wall Street elite. That’s the essence of the biggest change in U.S. politics.

If Musk is the one shouting, then peter thiel is carrying it out quietly—somehow, it feels like everything about him is contained in that single sentence.