Silicon Valley's leaders are rushing to embrace the power of media for the purposes of marketing and political capital. Now, in a sign of the times, Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has launched its own game show. The spectacle is moderated by Pirate Wires editor Mike Solana (who is also the chief marketing officer at Founders Fund). The debut episode includes a who's who of players ' Sam Altman; Palmer Luckey; Bryan Johnson, the famed biohacker who will (according to him) live forever; and Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of encrypted chat app Signal. 'I'm so f*cking bored with VC content,' Solana told Newcomer, which originally reported the show's existence. 'There has to be a more interesting way to get to know someone, and I think that this is a way more interesting way to get to know someone.' In many ways, having a reality-TV-esque platform is just good business these days. The internet has turned the world into a population of chronic media...
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