Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference

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buran77•about 1 hour 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.

trhway•9 minutes ago

I''m sure they will be able to find a willing billionaire with a private island and a private jet.

AvAn12•about 1 hour ago

Hotel wants to avoid undesirable guests. Seems reasonable.

Hoasi•about 1 hour ago

How is this secretive if venue is public?

Fordec•about 1 hour 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

nobodyandproud•about 1 hour ago

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

netsharc•about 1 hour 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.

gofreddygo•about 1 hour ago

Like area 51.

mschuster91•about 1 hour 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•about 1 hour 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)

rubyfan•8 minutes ago

This is likely more an invite list than a membership list. Not defending it. But it's more like being a high profile, influential or powerful person and being invited to an exclusive conference than it is being a member of SPECTRE.

vrganj•8 minutes ago

Most shockingly, Kaja Kallas, EU Foreign Representative.

rayiner•about 1 hour ago

What meaningful complaint can you have about a meeting that includes Ted Cruz on one side and Wes Moore on the other; both Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman?

krapp•18 minutes ago

I want to know what the hell Joseph Gordon-Levitt is planning...

ares623•19 minutes ago

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

krapp•16 minutes ago

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

Animats•about 2 hours ago

"Cult-building" on the agenda?

zdw•22 minutes 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".

trencedamp•about 1 hour 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

netsharc•about 1 hour ago

Should've hosted them and served them cream of mushroom soup https://youtu.be/sNTuR-WD6os

pgt•about 1 hour ago

If the hotel cancelled it, it's suicide for the hotel. Who would ever book a private event that hotel again, let alone staying at that hotel if you're a private individual?

rcxdude•about 1 hour ago

Hotels cancel events all the time, when they prove to be more trouble than they're worth. In extreme cases, they might cancel the event while it's running and kick out the attendees and organizers.

AlpacaJones•9 minutes ago

It's a popular hotel in a stunning location. It will do even better after this.

What sort of eejit other than yourself will think, 'I won't book this hotel because they cancelled a Dialog event'?

Natfan•9 minutes ago

should a hotel ban nazis who are going there to incite violence? where do you draw the line?

wat10000•16 minutes ago

Nobody's going to be looking for a venue for a wedding or a whale biology conference and think, that hotel looks nice, but they canceled Palantir, so they just can't be trusted.

nobodyandproud•about 1 hour ago

Why is a privately owned hotel compelled to deal with controversy not of its making?

Perhaps things work differently for those of South African persuasion…

esseph•24 minutes ago

> If the hotel cancelled it, it's suicide for the hotel.

This is silly. The hotel will be fine, they could give two fucks about some private party when another will take its place.