🔗 Peter Thiel Snags Top Prize from Politico’s Owner

The Axel Springer Award—previously bestowed on Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman—will go to the Palantir billionaire at a ceremony in Berlin on September 24. CBS News boss Bari Weiss will deliver laudatory remarks.

At least there is consistency underpinning the award. Oh .. and then there’s this …

The announcement left out another important fact: Thiel reportedly made a $50 million investment in a new venture capital fund started by the son of Mathias Döpfner, Axel Springer’s co-owner and CEO. The son, Moritz, is known as–get this–the “German JD Vance.” Moritz previously worked as chief of staff at Thiel Capital.