Maybe Peter Thiel is the Antichrist. Or maybe it's meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Probably not. Maybe the idea of an antichrist is just random junk in part two of The ancient almanac of formalized strange ramblings.
Hehe, I used to think I was smart but it sure didn't amount to anything. I made a crappy dating website which in retrospect was a dumb idea. And then I figured out that pretty much everyone is smart if not smarter than me, so I wasn't very smart for thinking I was smart in the first place lol.
No, he's transforming it into a different service while getting value from the existing userbase. It's a way to make a popular tech company without relying on sheer luck that it gets a critical mass of users.