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It was PayPal cofounder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel who introduced his mentee, JD Vance, to President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2021. Three years later—with Trump and Vance just ...
J.D. Vance’s bona fides for a run to the U.S. Senate in 2022 largely ... the firm founded by billionaire investor and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel. But according to some of Vance’s former ...
Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who served as the sugar daddy for GOP vice presidential hopeful JD Vance’s Senate run, who helped kill Gawker, and who names his companies after bits of JRR ...
The Rockbridge Network was founded in 2019 by JD Vance and Chris Buskirk. [1] The group was first reported on in 2022 by The New York Times. The Network held a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in 2022. [2] Backed by Silicon Valley investors, it became known for its connections to tech investors and its support of Donald Trump's nationalist agenda. [3]
The relationship between Thiel, who cofounded PayPal and Palantir, and Vance goes back to at least 2011, when Thiel visited Yale Law School, where Vance was a student. Vance, who praised Thiel's ...
In 2022, Sacks gave a super PAC supporting Vance's Senate campaign $900,000, and Peter Thiel added $15 million. [101] It was initially reported that Elon Musk would contribute $45 million monthly to the Trump-Vance campaign, [ 102 ] but Musk later said he planned to donate "much lower amounts".
Some of his most notable billionaire donors include PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Roku founder Anthony Wood. Here’s a look at Vance’s prominent billionaire donors, as identified by Forbes.
It’s a similar story over in Ohio where J.D. Vance is running after a stint working at Thiel's VC firm Mithril Capital. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) is Vance’s opponent and likes to call him a ...