White House tech dinner, a lineup of Silicon Valley tech giants, but no Peter Thiel in sight. However, the Figma CEO is a Thiel Fellowship recipient, Scale AI is a unicorn nurtured by Founders Fund, David Sacks—besides being the White House's crypto czar—was Peter Thiel's right-hand man during the PayPal era, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the flagship success story of Peter Thiel's legendary Silicon Valley venture capital career, Palantir is a major contractor for Trump's Project Maven, and Peter Thiel was also one of OpenAI's earliest backers. Peter Thiel may not be at the dinner, but his influence is everywhere. Peter Thiel believes the West needs to be great again, and the path to greatness is technological innovation, which requires dismantling regulatory barriers.