{"id":15191,"date":"2024-07-19T12:37:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/how-jd-vances-path-to-being-trumps-vp-pick-wound-through-silicon-valley\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:37:34","slug":"how-jd-vances-path-to-being-trumps-vp-pick-wound-through-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/how-jd-vances-path-to-being-trumps-vp-pick-wound-through-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"How JD Vance\u2019s path to being Trump\u2019s VP pick wound through Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yale Law School graduate found allies in tech billionaires including Peter Thiel who rallied privately for him<\/p>\n<p>When JD Vance was a student at Yale Law School in 2011, he attended a talk featuring Peter Thiel, the conservative tech billionaire. Although Vance didn\u2019t know Thiel at the time, over the next decade he would become Thiel\u2019s employee, friend and the recipient of his largesse. Thiel\u2019s millions paved the way for Vance to become a senator.<\/p>\n<p>Thiel\u2019s talk was \u201cthe most significant moment of my time at Yale Law School\u201d, Vance would write <a href=\"https:\/\/thelampmagazine.com\/blog\/how-i-joined-the-resistance\">in a 2020 essay<\/a> for The Lamp, a Catholic magazine. In Vance\u2019s telling, Thiel\u2019s talk of the failures of elite institutions and belief in Christianity made him reconsider his own faith and immediately make plans for a career outside of law \u2013 one that wound through the worlds of tech and venture capital before politics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/19\/jd-vance-trump-vp-pick-silicon-valley\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bfb7298a4849c6a119117879facc572630e2aee6\/0_0_6103_3662\/master\/6103.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1ae2ee80e42b4b302168872695a4519c\" title=\"How JD Vance\u2019s path to being Trump\u2019s VP pick wound through Silicon Valley\" \/>Yale Law School graduate found allies in tech billionaires including Peter Thiel who rallied privately for him<br \/>\nWhen JD Vance was a student at Yale Law School in 2011, he attended a talk featuring Peter Thiel, the conservative tech billionaire. Although Vance didn\u2019t know Thiel at the time, over the next decade he would become Thiel\u2019s employee, friend and the recipient of his largesse. Thiel\u2019s millions paved the way for Vance to become a senator.<br \/>\nThiel\u2019s talk was \u201cthe most significant moment of my time at Yale Law School\u201d, Vance would write in a 2020 essay for The Lamp, a Catholic magazine. In Vance\u2019s telling, Thiel\u2019s talk of the failures of elite institutions and belief in Christianity made him reconsider his own faith and immediately make plans for a career outside of law \u2013 one that wound through the worlds of tech and venture capital before politics. 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