Dialog

Thiel and investor Auren Hoffman co-founded Dialog in 2006 as a private, invitation-only and “bipartisan” network of influential people in technology, politics, academia, finance, government and beyond. Dialog describes itself as a place for off-the-record relationships and moderated discussions among leaders from different fields and ideological backgrounds, and the group hosts at least one in-person retreat per year at lavish locations like the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain in Arizona, the Ritz-Carlton in Santa Barbara, California and the San Clemente Palace in Venice. Dialog has been described as Bilderberg (an off-the-record gathering of political and business elite) meets Silicon Valley salon.