Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist Peter Thiel famously isn’t into academia . And yet, in four recent off-the-record lectures on the antichrist in San Francisco, the billionaire venture capitalist has made a good case for credentialing. In these meandering talks, Thiel is clearly aiming for the kind of syncretic thinking