gmoney on tech billionaires running the George Soros playbook
“almost like a George Soros for his stuff”
“Be more behind the scenes, but super influential and then have other guys be the face of it”
“when you have that much money, you're also like, all right, well, the next step is influence”
Money first, then influence, then someone else out front.
gmoney's read is that Thiel mapped this early and others followed the same script.
The AI labs are the public face, but the real power sits behind the curtain.0