The former president fielded repeated calls from tech entrepreneur David Sacks, Palantir adviser Jacob Helberg and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Vance’s former employer and mentor ...

The popular online betting platform Polymarket is finalizing an investment of more than $200 million led by Peter Thiel’s ...

Vice president JD Vance is everywhere—and he’s the highest point of contact, Trumpworld sources say, for tech billionaires ...

With David Sacks as “AI and crypto czar” and Elon Musk as co-head of the DOGE, Peter Thiel’s network has become closely tied to the new Trump administration.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in an email to Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel in 2020 that the company's future is the millennials. Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, said in the coming ...

Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connections he made with Peter Thiel and others became crucial to his political ascent.

He joined Thiel’s Clarium Capital in 2008, and in 2010, co-founded the Thiel Fellowship. Trump picked him to serve as deputy secretary at HHS, the No. 2 position in the agency. Ken Howery ...

Peter Thiel backed JD Vance’s 2022 Senate campaign. When Vance expressed interest in running for a Senate seat opening up in 2022, he went up against a crowded primary field that included ...

Inside the powerful Peter Thiel network that anointed JD Vance. A small influential network of right-wing techies orchestrated Vance’s rise in Silicon Valley — and then the GOP.

With David Sacks as “AI and crypto czar” and Elon Musk as co-head of the DOGE, Peter Thiel’s network has become closely tied to the new Trump administration.

Thiel made him wealthy, setting him up to invest in companies that became popular with the MAGA set. He shepherded Vance’s entry into politics, bankrolling, alongside other Silicon Valley donors ...