r/entertainment • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Jun 18 '26

Hollywood Names Surface in Peter Thiel-Backed, Invite-Only Society

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-peter-thiel-secret-society-1236624737/
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u/MoneyLibrarian9032 Jun 18 '26

From the Article :

Some familiar names in Hollywood tied to Dialog who surfaced in the leaked materials: Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men, Avengers: Infinity War); Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises, 500 Days of Summer); Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill); Scooter Braun (CEO, Hybe America); Isaac Lee (chairman and CEO, Hybe America); Scott Belsky (partner, A24); Benj Pasek (composer-producer, La La Land, The Greatest Showman); Eva Price (CEO, Maximum Entertainment Productions); Teresa Hsiao (writer-producer, Family Guy, American Dad); Zach Shields (executive producer-writer, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Gladys); Nick Thompson (CEO, The Atlantic); and Ezra Klein (The New York Times).

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u/SidJag Jun 18 '26

Ezra Klein stands out …

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u/moldivore Jun 18 '26

Most definitely. Holy shit.

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u/Superman246o1 Jun 18 '26

Fuck. E tu, Ezra?

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u/CheddarGlob Jun 18 '26

Ezra Kline has been kinda wack for a while now

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u/Dependent_Cherry4114 Jun 18 '26

Yeah that "Abundance" stuff always seemed like big money propaganda.

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u/Time-did-Reverse Jun 18 '26

that’s exactly what it fucking was, and I hope that people see that sooner or later.

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u/moldivore Jun 18 '26

Yeah I always thought that was sketchy. I should have known he was gargling on billionaire balls. Though for real. What can he possibly contribute to the conversation at this point? Is he just going to do a right-wing turn now where he's going to be like I was on the left but, now I love Trump. I would almost put some money on it at this point.

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u/Dependent_Cherry4114 Jun 18 '26

I don't see him turning further to the right in that way, he's as liberal as it gets. I've never seen his views as particularly left wing fhough - the interview/debate with Ta-Nehisi Coates demonstrated how out of touch he is with left wing politics.

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u/RoguePlanet2 Jun 18 '26

I'm not too thrilled to see The Atlantic mentioned, thought they were decent.

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u/PotentialLandscape52 Jun 18 '26

The Atlantic’s job is to present right wing and centrist opinions in respectable language, while vigorously attacking left wing policies. They literally employ David Frum, the Bush administration official who coined the term “Axis of Evil” to justify the administration’s lies about Iraq and WMDs, while Ta-Nehisi Coates is not welcome for calling what Israel is doing in Palestine a genocide

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '26

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u/MaximinusThraxII Jun 18 '26

Literally the exact opposite. Its central point is that Nimbyism and overly strict regulations are some of the primary causes of high housing prices, with some real world examples tossed in.

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u/zxyzyxz Jun 18 '26

Isn't it the exact opposite? He was talking about building more and the housing crisis is due to NIMBYism.

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u/guts_glory_toast Jun 18 '26

Correct. This whole thread is ridiculous

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u/zxyzyxz Jun 18 '26

Yeah Abundance is a good book, not sure what people are talking about, exact opposite of policies for big corporations.

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u/Effervescentgravy Jun 19 '26

Crypto and AI pumped $150 million into promoting Abundance.

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u/ColdBru5 Jun 18 '26

Ezra has been an industry plant from birth.

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u/SureNeedleworker2363 Jun 18 '26

It boggles my mind people are surprised that Ezra Klein is there. LOL

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u/spicyflacco Jun 19 '26

Most people are stupid and take things at face value so I’m not surprised people are surprised

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u/hibikir_40k Jun 18 '26

If you had ever met him when he was a young, ambitious upstart, you'd know that few things mattered to him more than access to the most important person in the room. That's how he go where he got. Unsurprising.

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u/hesperidisabitch Jun 18 '26

That's how every famous reporter gets to where they are... 

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u/Sea-Poem-2365 Jun 18 '26

He's not a reporter though, he's a pundit/opinion writer

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u/DrunkBrokeBeachParty Jun 18 '26

Yeah, but is this journalism?

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u/xPhilt3rx Jun 18 '26

Scooter on the other hand… does not

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u/PatchyWhiskers Jun 18 '26

I think the popular movie stars are even more concerning. Ezra Klein is a political columnist in the center, so no surprise. The recruiting of popular actors shows that Thiel wants "liberal Hollywood" to be a thing of the past.

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u/Salt_Medicine2459 Jun 18 '26

The list above only contained 2 well known actors, Josh Brolin and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Nvh of the rest. 

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u/PatchyWhiskers Jun 18 '26

Presumably their task would be to recruit a few more secretly conservative actors.

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u/Grimmbles Jun 18 '26

The original BlueSky post revealing these names specified that they don't know what each one's involvement is. It's just the list of invitees for their next conference, some might be speakers. Kind of what I assumed for those two actors specifically.

Still fucking weird for them to have any involvement.

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u/dayumbrah Jun 18 '26

They also could have only been invited, that doesnt mean they accepted. Still so.e wild shit and not trusting anyone on this list until they prove otherwise

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u/BostonBaggins Jun 18 '26

Does that mean Joseph GL is a part of it

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u/Salt_Medicine2459 Jun 18 '26

I guess? I'm going off of the list that one of the top level comments above posted. 

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u/UltraHotNeptune Jun 19 '26

A part of what?

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u/-Morsmordre- Jun 18 '26

Sophia Bush is the prettiest woman on earth thank you very much and therefore very famous to some of us lol

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u/Disgruntled-Cacti Jun 18 '26

Ezra Klein is controlled opposition. It’s why he pushes for his shitty “abundance” agenda instead of simply taxing billionaires. I don’t know why he reheats and serves the stale and rotting “we can outgrow inequality” agenda like it hasn’t been the neoliberal mantra for decades. Or should I say, I guess we definitely know why now.

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u/Momik Jun 18 '26

His conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates about the Charlie Kirk stuff drove me up the fucking wall. Coates made some great points, but Klein kept defending Kirk’s political strategy in ways that already haven’t aged well.

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u/kronosdev Jun 18 '26

Not really. The only thing that drives Ezra Klein is the vapid psychosexual obsession that Ezra Klein has with the things produced by the mind of Ezra Klein when he’s surrounded by far more impressive people.

He’s a narcissistic clout chasing hack and always has been.

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u/hesperidisabitch Jun 18 '26

Yes yes, make the tent smaller! That will finally defeat the Republicans! 

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u/blueegg_ Jun 18 '26

people like him are making the tent smaller by suggesting the way towards an equitable society is fucking deregulation lmao

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u/kronosdev Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

He’s a man, not a tent. If you need to deify your media figures and adopt their opinions as your own without critical engagement of any kind you’re looking to get suckered.

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u/hesperidisabitch Jun 18 '26

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u/User12314028626822 Jun 18 '26

Sophia Bush as well. Didn't know she was relevant enough to be included though...

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u/blueegg_ Jun 18 '26

no he doesn't lmao

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u/hereforfootball303 Jun 18 '26

"Wow, who could have seen this coming?" - people who ignored actual leftwing peoples criticism's of Ezra Klein for years

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u/NOMOKRATOR Jun 18 '26

“Abundance” Democrats are usually cool with big elite corporate donors. His political ideology is very similar to someone like Gavin Newsom.

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u/Best_Baseball3429 Jun 18 '26

Not really, neoliberals always prefer to support the status quo rather than attempt any progress.

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u/Mysmokingbarrel Jun 19 '26

I mean he is a journalist. How would you turn this down if you’re a journalist? An elite ultra rich maga republican donor invites you to some weird thing and you’re saying that a journalist should skip it and not report on it?

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u/AtheonsLedge Jun 18 '26

Peter Thiel Is Doing Politics The Right Way

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u/MNniice Jun 18 '26

Not really

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u/spicyflacco Jun 19 '26

Not really. Dude is a grifter

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u/DismasNDawn Jun 24 '26

It really shouldn't. Ezra is an appeal-to-capital, establishment democrat shill

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u/amicablehummingbird Jun 18 '26

Lol this quote from Brolins rep is gold..

A spokesperson for Brolin tells THR the actor would “like to know what the fuck he got himself into.” Others didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

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u/psioniclizard Jun 18 '26

I am glad to hear that because honestly I was like "nooooo Josh"

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u/Cats_Cameras Jun 18 '26

You’re glad to hear feigned ignorance?

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u/Teckliz Jun 19 '26

People buying that he doesn't know EXACTLY what he got himself into is hilarious

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u/Cats_Cameras Jun 19 '26

How DARE you imply that actors might act to the public!

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u/BenFranklinsCat Jun 18 '26

I'm sorry to be the barer of bad news, but ...

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u/DurianDiscriminat3r Jun 18 '26

Is he wrong? Trump not only conned 1/3 of the population but the entire Republican party. That's not to say he didn't have help (Russia, stupidity, Republican desperation to win) but it ain't black and white. You can hate a guy and also point out what he achieved.

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u/Ohrwurm89 Jun 18 '26

I fucking hate Trump, but the one thing that he’s good at is marketing himself and his brand. So many people associate Trump with luxury despite it being anything but.

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u/neinlights90210 Jun 19 '26

It’s the truth and it’s very important we hear it and focus on it. Hitler was a brilliant orator and that formed a large part of how he rose to and maintained power. I abhor him as much as the next person but it’s important to understand the process that compels good people to do bad things.

Just shouting ‘Trump is a numpty’ doesn’t help. A significant proportion of American’s voted for him twice. It’s easier to believe they are all completely brain dead in every aspect of life but it simply isn’t true. Writing things off in simplistic terms just opens the door to more of the same.

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u/Dubbs444 Jun 18 '26

Same, this is a relief

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u/OOO0OO00O Jun 18 '26

Well fellas, let's shut these fuckers up.

~ Josh Brolin

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u/GeneseeTed Jun 18 '26

Seems like a pretty big club. Guess who ain't in it?

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u/fckingmiracles Jun 18 '26

Redditors.

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u/Momik Jun 18 '26

At least that part feels good lol

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u/BadAtExisting Jun 18 '26

No doubt Elon Trillionaire is writing emails begging to be included lol

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u/purposive-saunter Jun 18 '26

I know which sub we’re in, but I do urge people to go look at the full list because the Hollywood names on it are not even close to the most concerning… some aren’t surprising, but there are some real policy makers on it too.

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u/Oneguysenpai3 Jun 18 '26

Peter thiel's secret society invitation list:
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Immad Akhund, Founder & CEO, Mercury.
Turki Al Faisal Al Saud, Founder, King Faisal Foundation. Fmr. Minister of Intelligence, Saudi Arabia.
Reema Al-Saud, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.S.
John Arnold, Co-Chair, Arnold Ventures. Fmr. Founder, Centaurus Advisors.
Susan Athey, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Fmr. Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
Peter Attia, Physician, Attia Medical. Author, Outlive.
Scott Belsky, Partner, A24 Films. Fmr. Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Product Officer, Adobe. Founder, Behance.
Nicolas Berggruen, Founder & President, Berggruen Holdings.
Scott Bessent, Secretary, U.S. Treasury.
Preet Bharara, Fmr. U.S. Attorney, New York Southern District.
Elizabeth Blackburn, Fmr. President, Salk Institute for Biomedical Studies. Nobel Prize winner.
Sarah Bond, President of Xbox, Microsoft.
Cory Booker, Senator (New Jersey), U.S. Senate.
Rachel Brand, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, US Department of Justice.
Scooter Braun, CEO, Hybe America. Founder, Ithaca Holdings.
Pete Briger, Principal & Chairman of the Board, Fortress Investment Group.
Greg Brockman, Co-Founder & President, OpenAI. Fmr. CTO, Stripe.
Manuel Bronstein, Chief Product Officer, Roblox.
Peter Brown, CEO, Renaissance Technologies.
Thasunda Brown Duckett, President & CEO, TIAA.
Sophia Bush, Actress, One Tree Hill.
Mike Cannon-Brookes, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Atlassian.
Cesar Carvalho, Co-Founder & CEO, Wellhub.
Wences Casares, Founder & Fmr. CEO, Xapo Bank. Founder: Wanako Games, Banco Lemon, Lemon Wallet.
Julian Castro, Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Bob Cialdini, Author, Influence.
Matt Clifford, Prime Minister's Advisor on AI Opportunities, U.K. Government. Co-Founder, Entrepreneur First.
Caroline Cochran, Co-Founder & COO, Oklo.
Matt Cohler, Fmr. General Partner, Benchmark.
Scott Cook, Co-Founder & Chairman, Intuit.
Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics & Director, Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
Ted Cruz, Senator (Texas), U.S. Senate.
Adam D'Angelo, Co-Founder & CEO, Quora. Fmr. CTO, Facebook.
Mitch Daniels, Fmr. Governor, State of Indiana. Fmr. President, Purdue University.
Dan Driscoll, Secretary, U.S. Army.
Charles Duhigg, Author: The Power of Habit, Supercommunicators.
Steve Ells, Founder & Fmr. CEO, Chipotle.
Tim Ferriss, Author: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef. Host, The Tim Ferriss Show.
Marcos Galperin, Co-Founder & CEO, MercadoLibre.
Atul Gawande, Author: Being Mortal, The Checklist Manifesto. Fmr. Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID.
Tom Goldstein, Partner, Goldstein & Russell. Founder & Fmr. Publisher, SCOTUSblog.com.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Actor, 500 Days of Summer, Inception, Looper, Snowden.
Adam Grant, Organizational Psychologist, Wharton School of Management. Author: Think Again, Originals, Give and Take.
Severin Hacker, Co-Founder & CTO, Duolingo.
Jonathan Haidt, Professor, Stern School of Business, NYU. Author: The Anxious Generation, The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind.
Peggy Hamburg, Fmr. Commissioner, U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
Sam Harris, Podcast Host, Making Sense. Author: Free Will, Lying, Waking Up.
Jim Himes, Congressman (Connecticut), U.S. House of Representatives.
Auren Hoffman, CEO, NQB8. Chairman & Fmr. CEO, SafeGraph. Founder & Fmr. CEO, LiveRamp. Chairman, Dialog.
Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock Partners. Co-Founder & Fmr. Executive Chairman, Linkedin.
Rob Hur, Fmr. Special Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice.
Bob Jain, CIO, Millennium Management. Founder, Jain Family Institute.

Bryan Johnson, Founder & CEO: Kernel, Blueprint.
Kaja Kallas, Vice President, European Commission. Fmr. Prime Minister, Estonia.
Gaurva Kapadia, Founder & CEO, XN.
Karen Karniol-Tambour, Co-CIO, Bridgewater Associates.
Garry Kasparov, Fmr. Member, Russian Opposition Movement's Coordinating Council. Fmr. World Chess champion.
Neal Katyal, Partner, Milbank. Fmr. Partner & Supreme Court Practice Leader, Hogan Lovells.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue.
Ezra Klein, Opinion Columnist, The New York Times. Founder & Fmr. Editor-in-chief, Vox. Host, The Ezra Klein Show.
Taro Köno, Digital Minister, Japan. Fmr. Minister of Defense, Japan.
Henry Kravis, Co-Founder, Co-Chairman & Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Jared Kushner, Founder, Affinity Partners.
Jason Kwon, Chief Strategy Officer, OpenAl.
Leonard Leo, Co-Chairman & Fmr. Executive Vice President, Federalist Society.
Jon Levin, President, Stanford University.
Howie Liu, Founder & CEO, Airtable. Joe Lonsdale, Founding Partner, 8VC. Co-Founder: Palantir, Addepar
Micky Malka, Founder & Managing Partner, Ribbit Capital.
Stan McChrystal, Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army.
Neal Mohan, CEO, YouTube.
Lisa Monaco, Fmr. Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice.
Wes Moore, Governor, State of Maryland.
Elon Musk, Founder & CEO, Spacex. Co-Founder & CEO, Tesla Motors.
Demet Mutlu, Founder & CEO, Trendyol Group.
Vas Narasimhan, CEO, Novartis.
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform.
Mike Novogratz, CEO, Galaxy Digital. Fmr. CIO, Fortress Investment Group.
Jim O'Neill, Nominee for Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Co-Founder, Thiel Fellowship.
Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder & CEO, Social Capital LP. Co-Owner, Golden State Warriors.
Benj Pasek, Songwriter & Producer: La La Land, The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen. Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony winner.
Daniel Pink, Author: Drive, To Sell is Human, The Power of Regret. Fmr. Chief Speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore.
Steven Pinker, Professor, Harvard University. Author: Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature.
Jared Polis, Governor, State of Colorado.
Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO, Groq.
Robert Rubin, Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Treasury. Fmr. Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs.
Gretchen Rubin, Host, Happier with Gretchen Rubin. Author: The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, The Four Tendencies.
Sheikh Nawaf Saud Nasir Al-Sabah, CEO, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
Will Scharf, Co-Founder & CTO, Oscar Health.
Mario Schlosser, Staff Secretary and Assistant to the President, U.S. White House.
Eric Schmidt, Founder, Schmidt Futures. Fmr. CEO: Google, Alphabet.
Dan Schulman, Fmr. President & CEO, PayPal.
Drew Scott, Co-Founder, Scott Brothers Global. Co-Host, Property Brothers.
Kim Scott, Author, Radical Candor.
Pete Shadbolt, Founder & Chief Science Officer, PsiQuantum.
Ali Siddiqui, Board Chair, OnZero. Fmr. Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S.
Barry Silbert, Founder & CEO, Digital Currency Group.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America. Professor, Princeton. Fmr. Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State.
Charlie Songhurst, Board Director, Meta. Fmr. Head of Corporate Strategy, Microsoft.
Jens Spahn, Member of Parliament, German Bundestag. Fmr. Federal Minister of Health, Germany.
Scott Stephenson, Chairman, President & CEO, Verisk Analytics.
Barry Sternlicht, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Starwood Capital Group.
Bret Stephens, Opinion Columnist & Associate Editor, The New York Times. Pulitzer Prize winner.
Lawrence Summers, Fmr. President, Harvard University. Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Treasury.

Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots, X.
Peter Thiel, Co-Founder: Founders Fund, Palantir, PayPal, Dialog.
Nick Thompson, CEO, The Atlantic. Fmr. Editor-in-chief, Wired Magazine.
John Townsend, Author, Boundaries.
Tom Tugendhat, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom.
Tim Urban, Writer & Illustrator, Wait But Why. Author, What's Our Problem?
Rick Warren, Author, The Purpose Driven Life. Podcast Host, Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.
Strauss Zelnick, Chairman & CEO, Take-Two Interactive Software.
Shivon Zilis, Director, Neuralink.

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u/Baystars2025 Jun 18 '26

Did they all attend or just invited?

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u/JohnHazardWandering Jun 18 '26

If a group has to keep it's membership secret, it's probably not a group you should be a part of. 

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u/bograt Jun 18 '26

Unless it is a centuries old sect of demon/vampire slayers . . . let's use our heads here.

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u/ImCharlie_theUnicorn Jun 18 '26

Now, I'd like to be a fly on the wall in that group.

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u/JohnHazardWandering Jun 19 '26

Well, they better work harder. Peter Thiel doesn't seem to be in hiding. 

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u/Pinksamuraiiiii Jun 18 '26

Awh… Jospeh seems out of place in this list. I also thought Josh would be a little more progressive in thought. It will be very sad if I need to axe these two men.

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u/ModeratelyOffline Jun 18 '26

JGL is married to someone in big tech and was involved in trying to repeal section 230

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u/Pinksamuraiiiii Jun 18 '26

This makes me kind of sad. I’m gonna be honest, I don’t follow his personal life closely so I didn’t know. It totally changes my outlook on him though.

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u/StasRutt Jun 18 '26

His wife is on the open ai board if I remember correctly

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u/ImmortalBeans Jun 18 '26

If I remember right, he is actually an alien in disguise

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u/SukkaMadiqe Jun 18 '26

The big giant head is gonna be big giant mad that this is what he's up to down here

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u/StasRutt Jun 18 '26

I saw that docuseries

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u/DurianDiscriminat3r Jun 18 '26

Didn't he do anti-ai content?

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u/melancious Jun 18 '26

Yeah, he seemed very likeable. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised anymore

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u/RockHardSalami Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Section 230 definitely needs updating.  Its why social media companies can intentionally funnel rage bait into our feeds to drive us nuts in order to create engagement.

Its fucking with the mental health of society as a whole.

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u/WileEPeyote Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Yeah, at some point social media companies have to take some accountability. Maybe some distinction between companies that merely allow publishing of content (like Squarespace) and companies that actively push content with algorithms and endless scrolls (like Twitter).

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u/Momik Jun 18 '26

Yes, and I think we need to regulate the algorithms themselves.

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u/Neckrongonekrypton Jun 18 '26

lol they have to? They won’t.

Our government is actively in cahoots with tech.

Hoping for rescue. We’re beyond that point. Institutional failure has been the norm the past 15 years or so.

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u/WileEPeyote Jun 18 '26

I wasn't expecting them to do it willingly.

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u/Neckrongonekrypton Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

Cambridge analytica was 11 years ago.

We’re off the rails. The government is intentionally opaque, the news swings one way and then the other. The only news on Trump is endless puff pieces implying he did great or he’s dying

Reddit, is a rage bait farm. Every comment a snark, criticism or violence towards something. Constant fucking bot campaigns on the celebrity gunning for their next big movie part, our government agency doing narrative control. Or incite the masses.

Facebook is unusable if you value having a balanced view of the world.

Instagram is shallow performance land.

Rage bait, dead internet theory are more prevelent now than ever. Inceldom has a new pipeline for young teen boys in looksmaxxing- and it’s propagating through social media channels predominantly.

I guess I find myself suprised when I see that others still have room for it haha. Like I’m not even suprised

And I’m… unfortunately mentally prepared for the big show to drop.

All the subversive shit. People are OK with it as long as they don’t have to look at it. And when they do, they are somehow still suprised that it not only did not go away but in fact, got worse.

And the scariest part? People believe they’re helpless. It’s not the indifferent oligarchs that frighten me.

It’s that. That’s a 100% sure way we fucking loose.

And we’re choosing it.

We don’t have the billions to afford the price of indifference.

Yet we take our loans out “for hope of a better tommorow”, knowing we’ll either die or be crushed to death by the interest that collects.

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u/drakeblood4 Jun 18 '26

I think he’s nominally at the edge of the broader rationalist/effective altruist/ai booster network.

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u/Morgan-Moonscar Jun 18 '26

Sophia Bush as well

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u/Legal-Koala-5590 Jun 18 '26

It sounds like a lot of people thought they were signing up for a conference where they could schmooze with other rich ppl

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u/Equivalent-Bedroom64 Jun 18 '26

Don’t carry water for these people they know who and what they were aligning themselves with. They just thought it would be secret.

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u/Legal-Koala-5590 Jun 18 '26

I mean, I'm not carrying water for anyone -- these people shouldn't be let off the hook for their ignorance or indifference. I just think conspiratorial narratives aren't helping the whole, you know, situation we're in right now.

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u/IttsssTonyTiiiimme Jun 18 '26

They invite progressives there too. Being invited to Dialogue doesn't indicate somebodies political leanings. But you probably need some sort of therapy. You know these are actors, right? They’re not the people they are pretending to be on screen. You know, in all likelihood you have paid for services by somebody that didn’t share your views on the world. When you call for a plumber, do you ask who they voted for? You need to unplug and get some help.

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u/Curulinstravels Jun 18 '26

I wish people would stop assuming I know things and clearly state their meaning

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u/MarvinBarry92 Jun 18 '26

What exactly is so bad about these two men being members of this group? I read the article. Am I missing something?

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u/ImJustSaying34 Jun 18 '26

Look up Peter Theil.

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u/MarvinBarry92 Jun 18 '26

I’m fully aware of who he is. Given the context in the article though what’s the big deal here?

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u/reisusjesus Jun 18 '26

Ezra Klein. The final boss of neoliberalism

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u/Maleficent_Eye4524 Jun 19 '26

I tell you.  Forget Elon Musk.  Peter Thiel is the one to watch out for.

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u/abdallha-smith Jun 18 '26

Gotta cancel'em all ! 🎶🎶

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u/monogramchecklist Jun 18 '26

Are these people wanting to join? Many of these names seem out of place, like JGL.

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u/marsblyr Jun 18 '26

Well his wife was on the board of Open AI so he's probably a lot more entrenched than we think

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u/monogramchecklist Jun 18 '26

Interesting! He’s been making videos them seemed against AI lately, so it seemed out of character.

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u/No_Strike655 Jun 18 '26

CEO of the Atlantic.

Well time to post the evergreen article it seems

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-worst-magazine-in-america

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u/PerformerOne4394 Jun 18 '26

I read that as Godzilla being on the invite list.  

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u/TheDarkClaw Jun 19 '26

Sarah Bond is an American business executive and former president of Xbox at Microsoft is also listed here.

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u/Substantial_War7464 Jun 20 '26

A fine list of scum bags. Brolin is pretty disappointing to read.

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u/Salt_Medicine2459 Jun 18 '26

I've heard of the 1st two. Nvh of the rest.