Early Tuesday, The New York Times reported that the founder of Gawker Media had a "personal hunch" that a billionaire from Silicon Valley was funding Hulk Hogan's high-profile lawsuit against his publication. Several hours later, Forbes reported that it knew the name of that backer: Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley's best known VCs who was a PayPal cofounder and an early investor in Facebook. PayPal has an office in Chandler and employed 1,800 people as of February 2016. Gawker was on the losing…