Overview

• Multiple outlets published audio and transcripts from Thiel’s closed four-part lectures in San Francisco delivered in September and early October.
• In the recordings, he called technology skeptics “legionnaires of the Antichrist” and said the modern Antichrist is “someone like Greta or Eliezer.”
• He argued that global regulation, tax treaties, sanctions and payment controls could create a one-world system that strips financial privacy.
• Transcripts show him deeming Bill Gates and Xi Jinping unlikely Antichrist candidates and saying President Trump might be “better than the Antichrist.”
• Attention to the leak intensified because of Thiel’s prominence as a PayPal and Palantir cofounder and his ties to Vice President JD Vance and the Trump administration.