Closing graf: Thiel made his contrarian bet, and he was right. Now he may discover how deeply unpopular it makes him. And we all learned in school that being

Closing graf: Thiel made his contrarian bet, and he was right. Now he may discover how deeply unpopular it makes him. And we all learned in school that being popular was more important than being right.... (And for the pedants, I mean right as you see it, not as is fashionable with the popular cliques.)