It's definitive that Thiel put Harder on retainer with a mandate to find people interested in suing Gawker. When the Bollea case proved promising, that got furt

It's definitive that Thiel put Harder on retainer with a mandate to find people interested in suing Gawker. When the Bollea case proved promising, that got further support. Regardless of whether Ayyadurai's cases got more support from Thiel, without Thiel Harder isn't there to do this in the first place.