Peter Thiel is competing with Elon Musk for most evil tech lord, with a different strategy.
Musk is doing a lot of his foul work in plain sight. It seems that Thiel is trying to keep the public from understanding what he's doing until it's too late to stop him.
https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion?ref=theframelab.org