Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference

Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference(irishtimes.com)

94 points by 01-_- 2 hours ago | 30 comments

buran77 53 minutes 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 11 minutes ago | |

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

AvAn12 1 hour ago |

Hotel wants to avoid undesirable guests. Seems reasonable.

Hoasi 1 hour ago |

How is this secretive if venue is public?

Fordec 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 1 hour ago | | |

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

netsharc 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 1 hour ago | |

Like area 51.

mschuster91 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 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)

ares623 22 minutes ago |

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

krapp 19 minutes ago | |

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

Animats 1 hour ago |

"Cult-building" on the agenda?

zdw 25 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 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 1 hour ago |

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

pgt 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 54 minutes 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 11 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 11 minutes ago | |

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

nobodyandproud 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…

wat10000 19 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.

esseph 26 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.