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Peter Thiel Pulls the Plug on Nvidia!! — Sells Out, Trims Tesla and Suddenly Loves Big Tech Stocks (Selectively)

In a move that reads like a hedge-fund mic drop, billionaire investor Peter Thiel quietly dumped his entire public stake in Nvidia over the July–September quarter — selling roughly 537,742 shares and leaving Thiel Macro LLC with zero direct NVDA exposure as of Sept. 30. 

For anyone who’s been watching the AI gold rush from the sidelines, the exit looked less like panic and more like a man stepping off a wildly swinging chandelier with a very particular financial philosophy: buy what you like, sell what looks like a festival of speculation.

The numbers are eye-popping and slightly theatrical... 

Investing.com’s math pegs the sale at nearly $100 million based on Nvidia’s average price during the quarter. 

Even more eyebrow-raising is that Nvidia's position reportedly once made up nearly 40% of Thiel Macro’s equity portfolio. 

So yes — this was not pocket change. It was a portfolio-level statement!

But Thiel didn’t simply go cash-and-run... 

He slashed his Tesla exposure from 272,613 shares down to 65,000, and redeployed capital into what some would call the safer megacap bunkers of Silicon Valley: he bought 79,181 shares of Apple and 49,000 shares of Microsoft. 

Also on the chopping block: Vistra Energy — 208,747 shares fully exited. 

If there’s a theme here, it’s complex: reduce concentrated bets tied directly to AI hardware mania, keep stakes in platform players that can monetize AI across software, cloud, and device ecosystems.

Why now? 

Thiel has been vocally skeptical about what he calls “stretched valuations” in Nvidia and the broader AI frenzy. 

Earlier this year he likened some of the market’s behavior to the late-1990s dot-com froth — not exactly a calming metaphor! 

He’s not alone in getting queasy --- SoftBank disclosed it sold its entire Nvidia stake just a week before Thiel’s filing, and investor Michael Burry — famous for shorting housing before 2008 — recently disclosed heavy short positions on Nvidia and Palantir (PLTR). 

Suddenly what felt like a marching band is starting to look like a parade with a few people quietly checking the exits!

There are strategic angles beyond simple valuation prudence. 

Nvidia sits at the center of an AI supply chain that suddenly looks both indispensable and precarious: chipmakers are key suppliers to massive AI projects (OpenAI and others) that face enormous capital and operating commitments — in some cases rumored to exceed $1 trillion in value. 

Questions swirl about how sustainably those investments will pay off, whether circular financing concerns exist where partners buy each other’s stock or services, and whether elevated capex among megacaps will actually translate into durable profits. 

Thiel seems content to limit his direct hardware exposure while keeping a foot in companies that sell the platforms and cloud services where AI workloads will live.

Crucially, Thiel has not abandoned the AI space entirely. 

He is co-founder and an ongoing backer of Palantir, a major data-analytics firm that sells AI-driven services to governments and enterprises — and through Founders Fund, he keeps investing in private AI plays like defense-tech Anduril and other startups. 

So the thesis looks less like “I hate AI” and more like “I dislike certain market structures and valuation excesses tied to it.”

Practical reading for investors? 

Thiel’s moves underscore two things: (1) even long-term tech bulls hedge exposure when they smell a bubble, and (2) platform-level AI bets (Microsoft, Apple) are viewed differently than single-point hardware plays (Nvidia) — at least by some sophisticated players. 

Now, whether history will call Thiel prescient or prematurely cautious may depend on how quickly AI monetization scales and whether Nvidia’s moat stays impenetrable.

Either way, the Q3 2025 filings reveal a fund manager doing two things discipline often forgets: trimming risk and reallocating to where he sees more durability. 

For the rest of us watching the AI narrative morph into the market’s favorite soap opera, it’s a reminder that excitement is not the same as sustainability — and that even billionaires get cold feet when valuations look like they’re sprinting on stilts.


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Sources: Q3 2025 Form 13F filings for Thiel Macro LLC (showing 537,742 NVDA shares sold and no Nvidia holdings as of Sept. 30; Tesla reduced to 65,000 shares from 272,613; purchases of 79,181 AAPL and 49,000 MSFT; exit of 208,747 Vistra Energy shares); Investing.com calculations estimating the Nvidia sale at nearly $100 million based on average July–September prices; contemporaneous market reporting that SoftBank sold its Nvidia stake and that Michael Burry disclosed heavy short positions on Nvidia and Palantir; public remarks and coverage noting Thiel’s earlier warnings about “stretched valuations” and dot-com comparisons; context on Nvidia/OpenAI relationships, concerns about megacap AI capital spending and potential circular financing; note that Thiel retains significant AI exposure through Palantir and VC investments via Founders Fund.

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