AdvertisementThe Thiel effectFor Vance, Thiel's influence first left its mark when he was still a student.
Thiel also got a shoutout on the acknowledgments page of Vance's 2016 book, "Hillbilly Elegy."
The former PayPal CEO has given $15 million to Vance's campaign, Politico reported — the largest donation ever given to one Senate candidate.
AdvertisementOne of Trump's biggest donors in the 2016 presidential campaign, Thiel has re-emerged as a key player in the MAGA movement after largely sitting out the 2020 election.
Thiel also appears to have pulled some of his Silicon Valley strings to advance Vance's campaign.
Persons:
—, JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Vance, Donald Trump, Thiel, Palantir, Elon Musk, Thiel's, meaninglessness, Tolkien, Steve Case, Trumper, Win McNamee, MAGA, Trump, David Sacks, Musk, Sacks, Tucker Carlson, Nordin Catic, Mark Zuckerberg
Organizations:
Service, Republican National Convention, Republican, White, Business, PayPal, Trump, Bloomberg, Yale, Yale Law School, Thiel's, Mithril, Narya, Politico, Republican Party, Fox News, Cambridge University Union, Facebook, Palantir Technologies, Spotify
Locations:
Milwaukee, Ohio, Mithril, Mar, Cambridge, England, Airbnb