Thiel was vengeful and hateful before the Gawker thing. His Stanford Review articles - those few that are not buried deep in Stanford archives - are toxic and horrible, just vileness projected out on the world. Maybe it's sublimated self-hatred but there's nothing to feel sorry for.
Oh I don’t feel sorry for him, I feel sorry for us, because we are and will be living this wrath which is hard to process. Have you posted those articles? I suppose they aren’t hard to search for? Sounds like they should be passed around. Wonder why no one tried to correct his toxicity back then..