On the surface, Blake Masters and JD Vance would seem to have an important advantage as they head into the final weeks of their Senate races. Both have deep ties to Silicon Valley’s richest and wealthiest investors and years of experience raising huge sums of money to fund technology companies.
Masters spent nearly a decade working closely with the venture capitalist Peter Thiel and co-wrote Thiel’s Zero to One, regarded by a generation of Silicon Valley billionaires as the definitive startup manual. Vance also worked for Thiel, and then later alongside AOL co-founder Steve Case, and Thiel was among ...
