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".
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?
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?
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.
It's safe to assume that once the secret conference and its secret location 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
In all the company events and such that I've been to at hotels and casinos, there's usually signs in the lobby, "Welcome X", or at least on the screens or signs by conference room doors telling you exactly who is there (I will not pretend, and know, that this is not always the case. But it's generally fairly trivial to figure these things out.)
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What sort of eejit other than yourself will think, 'I won't book this hotel because they cancelled a Dialog event'?
In all the company events and such that I've been to at hotels and casinos, there's usually signs in the lobby, "Welcome X", or at least on the screens or signs by conference room doors telling you exactly who is there (I will not pretend, and know, that this is not always the case. But it's generally fairly trivial to figure these things out.)