Some Observations on Peter Thiel's Takedown of Gawker

Please excuse this tangent but, while I was reading through Peter Thiel’s “Zero to One,” I began to wonder how he went about his stealthy takedown of the website Gawker, using Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against them as a proxy. This caused me to do a quick run through of Ryan Holiday’s book, “Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Int…