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My Gay War With Peter Thiel: Gawker’s Nick Denton Faces the Future

FIGHT TO WIN

Gawker’s Nick Denton doesn’t know if he’s about to be ruined by Hulk Hogan, or saved by Ziff Davis. But he says all his woes stem from his and Peter Thiel’s gay ideological differences.

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For an online media entrepreneur who might be about to lose his fortune to a retired celebrity wrestler (worst case scenario)—or (best case) save it by selling his company to a corporate white knight willing to pay $90 million or more—Nick Denton sounds remarkably sunny.

“Look, a lot of this is...

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