Peter Thiel

thiel is indubitably a tech critic—he’s just coming at it from a different angle than most. But an apostasy on the right counts, too, and the enigmatic investor spent the summer all but accusing Google of treason

and suggesting that tech companies were betraying American interests in their quest for global markets. That Thiel is regarded as a Valley intellectual, even if he’s not politically aligned with many of its reformers, makes him a force to be reckoned with.