Blake Masters
Blake Masters is an American venture capitalist, author, and former political candidate who served as Chief Operating Officer of Thiel Capital and President of the Thiel Foundation from 2018 to 2022. He is best known for co-authoring the 2014 bestselling book Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future with Peter Thiel, based on notes Masters took while a student at Stanford Law School. He was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona in 2022, losing the general election to incumbent Mark Kelly. He holds a BA in political science and a JD from Stanford University.
“He's raising up to $150 million for a new effort called Industrial Capital Fund... His partner is Brian Norgard, former chief product officer of Tinder.”
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