Trump’s VP candidate JD Vance has long ties to Silicon Valley, and was a Venture Capitalist himself
Former President Donald Trump picked Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate on Monday, as he runs to reclaim the office he lost to President Joe Biden in 2020.
Vance, who’s best known for his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” spent years as a venture capitalist before leaving the industry when elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022.
After graduating from Yale Law School in 2013, Vance moved to San Francisco, where he was a principal at Mithril Capital, a fund co-founded by Peter Thiel and Ajay Royan.
Mithril raised two funds, a $540 million and an $850 million vehicle in 2013 and 2017, respectively.
Thiel was publicly active in politics in 2016, backing Trump’s first presidential campaign, and helped fund Vance’s Senate race, but has said he’s not planning to donate to any Republicans in the 2024 election.
In 2017, JD Vance left Mithril and joined Steve Case’s Washington, D.C.-based Revolution as a managing director.
His move came when his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, landed a role as a Supreme Court clerk.
While at Revolution, JD Vance helped Case launch Rise of the Rest, a strategy focused on investing in startups outside the main U.S. tech hubs. At Revolution, the Republican VP nominee led deals into Michigan-based Aatmunn, a startup that develops software and wearable devices for on-the-job safety for construction workers.
He also backed and served on the board of Kentucky-based AppHarvest, an indoor farming startup, that went public via a SPAC in 2021 but filed for bankruptcy protection in 2023.
However, JD Vance didn’t play an active role in Revolution’s second Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, which closed in 2019 with $150 million in capital commitments. Around the same time, he was focused on raising funds for his own firm, Cincinnati-based Narya Capital. By early 2020, the new firm raised $93 million for a fund targeting $125 million from limited partners including Thiel, Marc Andreessen and Eric Schmidt. Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who later joined the race as a Republican presidential nominee and was believed to be one of the front-runners for Trump’s VP, was also one of Narya’s limited partners, according to Axios.
Narya, just like Rise of the Rest, is primarily focused on backing startups in underserved areas of the U.S. While it’s unclear if Steve Case backed Narya’s first fund, the AOL founder has publicly distanced himself from Vance’s political views and career.
After winning the Senate race, JD Vance stepped back from running Narya.
The firm is currently managed by Narya’s co-founder, Colin Greenspon, a former partner at the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and former managing director at Mithril. The firm is in the process of raising its $125 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing submitted to the SEC in late 2022.
JD Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio (August 2, 1984).
He then changed his name to James David Bowman.
He then changed his name to James David Hamel.
Eventually, in 2014, notably after Yale Law School (class of 2013) and after marrying his wife Usha, now age 30, he changed his name to write a book.
{Vance has changed his name 4 times?} Captain Convey
JD Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio (August 2, 1984). He then changed his name to James David Bowman. He then changed his name to James David Hamel.
Eventually, in 2014, notably after Yale Law School (class of 2013) and after marrying his wife Usha, now age 30, he changed his name to write a book.
Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio, a town halfway between Dayton and Cincinnati. Following his parents’ divorce, Bowman’s middle name was changed David.
James adopted his stepfather’s last name for some of his teenage years, with his 2003 senior yearbook identifying him as James Hamel.
This was also the name used during James’ military service from 2003 to 2007, where he served as a Corporal in the Marines.
In 2014, Vance married his wife, Usha, and decided to take on his maternal grandparents’ surname.
In his bestselling novel Hillbilly Elegy, and in his congressional bio, Vance has repeatedly emphasized their importance in his upbringing, and thanked his grandmother in his Senate victory speech, and in his vice presidential acceptance speech, causing the RNC audience to chant “Mamaw! Mamaw!”
Vance’s family history is central to his name change, and equally critical to his selection as vice president.
{This is why “JD Vance” changed his name 4 times.} Captain Convey
{Does this make suspicious cat suspicious, YES!}
To understand JD Vance as an Ohio senator, the inflection points in 2013 and the subsequent relationship with billionaire Peter Thiel (Palantir Technologies) from 2013 to now, becomes important.
Billionaires Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel are key members of the steering committee of the controversial, closed-door and overtly globalist Bilderberg conference. Newsweek once called Schmidt and Thiel the two most influential figures at Bilderberg.
Peter Thiel’s company Palantir Tech is the driving force of a global surveillance system using artificial intelligence (AI).
Palantir has massive contract interests in US military and intelligence communities.
Keep in mind, Palantir is the current company creating the tech mechanisms for the U.S government to conduct foreign and domestic surveillance.
The actual technology needed by the Deep State to advance their interests, is provided by Peter Thiel. {Citation}
According to the popular narrative, JD Vance opposes the Intelligence Community deep surveillance state, while simultaneously being the political front for the interests of Peter Thiel and Palantir Technology?
This doesn’t reconcile.
Peter Thiel was the money and network behind the 2022 Ohio senate race between JD Vance and Tim Ryan.
It was Peter Thiel who took JD Vance to meet President Trump in Mar-a-Lago to get the needed endorsement to launch Vance into the U.S. Senate.
Without Thiel there is no Senator JD Vance.
It is also important to remember that prior to 2018; prior to Peter Thiel becoming aligned with the FBI as a confidential human source, and prior to Vance needing the Trump endorsement; JD Vance was a staunch never-Trumper.
{Does this make suspicious cat suspicious, YES!}
JD Vance went from calling President Trump “a literal Hitler,” to appreciating Trump’s incredible leadership, a remarkable shift in opinion.
JD Vance, the new GOP nominee for vice president, used his first interview since being named to the ticket to explain why he once called his running mate − Donald Trump − “America’s Hitler.”
Coinciding with President Joe Biden’s highly anticipated NBC interview, Vance told Fox News he was initially wary of Trump in 2016.
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” Vance wrote in a 2016 message to a friend.
Monday, the Ohio senator, JD Vance said he has changed his mind.
“I don’t hide from that. I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016, but President Trump was a great president and he changed my mind. I think he changed the minds of a lot of Americans,” Vance told Fox’s Sean Hannity in a friendly interview.
Democrats were also quick to criticize Vance’s stance on abortion, after the GOP officially nominated the senator on day one of their convention.
An outspoken critic of abortion, Vance fell in line with Trump’s public position that decisions around restrictions should be left to individual states.
“My view is that Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party, and his views on abortion are going to be the views that dominate this party and drive this party forward,” Vance said when asked if he was in complete agreement with the former president.
To his strategic credit, Peter Thiel was successful in gaining both the endorsement and the outcome of the 2022 Ohio senate race.
Within the Thiel network you will note the aligned interests of another key financial friend and big federal contractor, Elon Musk.
Together, Musk and Thiel form the core of a very wealthy group of modern tech political influence agents, including another Yale Law School graduate and JD Vance supporter, Vivek Ramaswamy.
What you have read so far is the background of how one billionaire, Thiel, deeply enmeshed in the surveillance state creates the process to construct a political tool useful for the retention of his interests. A few dozen millions are a worthy investment if the investment creates and supports the objectives of the billionaire (Palantir Technology).
Unfortunately, this approach also diminishes the Trump policy objective intended to eliminate the IC deep state.
As an outcome of a control network in 2006 Senator Barack Obama was successfully installed.
As an outcome of a control network in 2022 Senator JD Vance was successfully installed.
Both Barry Sotero (Obama) and James Bowman (Vance) are mirror images of each other; the playbooks used to create both are identical.
We have exhaustively outlined the UniParty operation in Washington DC.
What was once a radical concept and controversial, is now accepted as factual.
Additionally, we have outlined the how the Fourth Branch of Government was created under Obama. What was once conspiracy theory is now accepted as the truth.
Once you understand how both wings of the UniParty operate you can then see how the system of silo creation, retention and protection works.
The Obama network ultimately led to the modern IC surveillance state.
The JD Vance network now appears to be positioned to retain it.
Like an abuser toward the abused, our ideological enemy uses our virtues of love and trust as weapons.
We are in an abusive relationship with government.
Captain Convey Note
This article from theconservativetreehouse.com looks Creditable to me, Captain Convey.
DJ Vance could possibly be another Mike Pence type of VP.
Time will tell.
Do I believe what this says.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/07/19/the-mirror/#more-262430
Yes for the DJ Vance history.
The future will tell the rest of the story.
Double check my opinions and make up your own mind.
I am NOT telling you what to think.