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  1. Jul 17, 2024 · JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, has had a long, collaborative relationship with GOP donor and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, one that has aided Vance from his time in venture capital to his role as an Ohio senator. Thiel is a PayPal co-founder. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)

  2. Nov 8, 2019 · Founded in 2012, Mithril is named after the super-strong armor worn by characters in “The Lord of the Rings.” (Thiel, an unabashed Tolkien fan, also mined the trilogy for the name of his data ...

  3. Jul 17, 2024 · In 2016, the same year Vance published his best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy, he joined Mithril Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded by Thiel and another veteran investor ...

  4. Feb 18, 2019 · Thiel, who is technically the chair of Mithril’s investment committee, has worked with Royan for going on two decades, dating back to their work at Clarium Capital, Thiel’s hedge fund.

  5. Thiel later became a “pretty good mentor” to Vance, according to The Washington Post, with Vance making the switch to venture capital and joining the Thiel-co-founded Mithril Capital in 2015 ...

  6. Feb 28, 2019 · On the one hand, Mithril Capital—the venture capital firm he co-founded with Peter Thiel in 2012—just had its biggest win to date after Johnson & Johnson agreed to buy Mithril-backed medical ...

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  8. Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, and was the first outside investor in Facebook. He has an estimated net worth of $9.7 billion , making him one of the ...

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