The thing with Thiel is that he exposed himself as a soulless technocrat after years of at least humbly running out of fucks to give.
This Palmer fellow, on the other hand, is rich but still finding his footing as the face of an unproven upstart that's heading nowhere fast. With this story blowing up and overshadowing all the good PR that the $3 billion pledge to combat global disease brought, Facebook will be all too eager to excise this cancerous growth and erase all records of his pathetic existence.
He will be rich, but he will be a non-entity. Even more so when Trump gets wiped out in a landslide this November. And the valley is an infamously insular group, so good luck finding someone else to give you the time of day.
Could've been the next Steve Jobs, but instead wants to be the next Milo.
Sad!