>>1375278
Sam talked about courting a "tech billionaire" for funding on his podcast:
https://youtu.be/wWiye6K-6y4?t=256
His shills said it "must have been Notch!" but Notch is not a tech billionaire that funds people like Sam. Very few people other than Thiel fit that description.
Roger Stone and Peter Thiel are connected and Sam hooked up with Stone, as well as the Dimes Square connection,
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/j-d-vance-dimes-square-the-art-world-new-right-conservatism-1234716130/
Sam shilled his Mondo Megashits NFTs at an event in that area (Dimes Square = Chinatown).
Basically, it's all circumstantial, but not baseless. Some have speculated that Thiel actually got cold feet at the prospect of funding Sam and basically turned him down, for what reason I have no idea.
