It's safe to assume that once the secret location of the secretive conference stopped being so secret, the organizers and attendees went looking for a more private venue.
Aren’t most events at hotels “secretive”? Our company all hands certainly isn’t a public event. It’s seems reasonable that defense companies may not always want their events to be public and in newspapers
Some have it coming, like the ones at Gawker. Doesn't excuse anything else Thiel has been connected to, of course, but I don't hold that particular lawsuit against him.
What did Taylor Swift and many celebs do yesterday at Madison Square Garden (a public venue)? All the news says she got married, but does that mean you're trusting the news media?
The group used to be pretty secretive and unknown until a hacker managed to discover Dialog not protecting their membership data properly - and found, among others, a shit ton of billionaires [1] and politicians including former German health minister Jens Spahn [2].
This is likely more an invite list than a membership list. Not defending it. But it's more like being a high profile, influential or powerful person and being invited to an exclusive conference than it is being a member of SPECTRE.
What meaningful complaint can you have about a meeting that includes Ted Cruz on one side and Wes Moore on the other; both Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman?
While Thiel's recent Antichrist talks could come to mind, this could just as easily be business speak, like in the Collins/Porras "Built to Last" where one of the points of great companies is "Cult-like culture".
If the hotel cancelled it, it's suicide for the hotel. Who would ever book a private event that hotel again, let alone staying at that hotel if you're a private individual?
Hotels cancel events all the time, when they prove to be more trouble than they're worth. In extreme cases, they might cancel the event while it's running and kick out the attendees and organizers.
Nobody's going to be looking for a venue for a wedding or a whale biology conference and think, that hotel looks nice, but they canceled Palantir, so they just can't be trusted.
> A leaked schedule for the “retreat” hosted by Dialog, an invitation-only group
Public venue, private ("secret") event.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/06/18/what-we...
[2] https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/das-spahn-netzwerk/2026/06/1...
General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent
Army secretary Dan Driscoll
Hallie Hoffman, acting chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn)
Wes Moore, Maryland governor
Jared Polis, Colorado governor
Tom Lue, general counsel and head of governance at Google DeepMind
Randy Kroszner, a former governor of the Federal Reserve
Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League
Peter Goettler, president of the Cato Institute
Ryan Stowers, executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation
Roger Myerson, Nobel laureate economist
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law
Neal Mohan, YouTube CEO
Scooter Braun, Music manager
Ezra Klein, political commentator
Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post reporter
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor
Sophia Bush, actress
Rick Warren, evangelical pastor
Elon Musk ($1.3 trillion)
Eric Schmidt ($40.1 billion)
Peter Thiel ($27.8 billion)
Henry Kravis ($12.2 billion)
Marcos Galperin ($6.8 billion)
Mike Cannon-Brookes ($7.7 billion)
Scott Cook ($4.4 billion)
Barry Sternlicht ($3.1 billion)
Nicolas Berggruen ($2.9 billion)
John Arnold ($2.8 billion)
Joe Lonsdale ($2.8 billion)
Reid Hoffman ($2.7 billion)
I mean there's no question these guys are the baddies, right? Look at every reason Peter Thiel has been in the news for the last year
What sort of eejit other than yourself will think, 'I won't book this hotel because they cancelled a Dialog event'?
Perhaps things work differently for those of South African persuasion…
This is silly. The hotel will be fine, they could give two fucks about some private party when another will take its place.