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Peter Thiel is deeply entwined with JD Vance’s political and professional trajectory through a mix of , and this relationship has shaped Vance’s rise to national prominence . Reporting identifies Thie...
JD Vance earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2013 and did practice law briefly — serving two clerkships and working at a large corporate law firm — before shifting into venture capital and a...
Peter Thiel’s investment in J.D. Vance’s pre‑Hillbilly Elegy career was largely personal and institutional mentorship rather than a single cheque: Thiel’s 2011 Yale talk drew Vance’s attention, Thiel ...
JD Vance is publicly identified as an investor and as a managing partner of the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund at Revolution, LLC, and has prior ties to venture capital activity, but publicly available ma...
Available reporting shows J.D. Vance left the Marines in 2007, used the G.I. Bill to attend Ohio State (BA, 2009), then enrolled at Yale Law School in 2010 and graduated with a JD in 2013; after law s...
Peter Thiel gave about $15 million to the pro‑Vance Protect Ohio Values effort in 2022, the largest single‑candidate Senate support reported, and Thiel has been a long‑time mentor and backer of J.D. V...