Peter Thiel. Illustration: Rich People Shit
escribed recently by one Irish journalist as someone who is “known 
for his scepticism about democracy”, tech billionaire and Dialog co-founder Peter Thiel’s plan for a secretive, elite group August meeting in Powerscourt has not been met with a thousands welcomes in Ireland.
Thiel is perhaps best known as the founder of controversial data integration and analytics software company Palantir, heavily criticised by civil liberties groups around the world for supporting genocide along with its predictive policing, whilst their privacy and security practices have also come under fire.
With a net worth estimated by The New York Times in December 2025 to stand at $27.5b, Thiel is one of the world’s richest individuals, and like his PayPal buddy Elon Musk, has made substantial donations to American right-wing figures and causes over the years.
With its first meeting being held back in 2006, Dialog is the private, invitation-only group founded by Thiel and Flex Capital’s Auren Hoffman that specialises in closed-door meetings bringing together executives, elected officials and academics to, their one-page website claims, ‘discuss topics off-the-record‘. Just how much of a Bond supervillain organisation Dialog might be is brought into question though by one ex-employee telling Rich People Shit 
in June, “Working there convinced me the Illuminati could never exist“. They also stated that Thiel was rarely at the office.
According to another leak in Wired magazine, the subjects up for discussion whilst in Ireland include nuclear power, World War 3, sex and cults.
For now, others are trying to help that cancellation along, North Wicklow Against Genocide holding a series of protests at The Powerscourt Hotel, the next being on Sunday, July 12th, followed by Sunday, August 9th, both at 2pm.
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If the event is not cancelled, there will be an emergency action. Stand up for working people, stand up against genocide and war.