How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left' traces Thiel’s impact on the GOP and media.

Like the Valar in the J.R.R. Tolkien books he loves so much—he’s named six companies with terms drawn from the fantasy novels—Thiel is mysterious, powerful, and a little incomprehensible.

And I'm very interested in the fact that one of Vance's biggest backers is venture capitalist Peter Thiel ... intellectual, and Thiel hired him just as Vance's book was coming out.

He didn't get the job. "At the time, I was devastated," he wrote in his book "Zero to One." Source: Here's why PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel is glad he was rejected from clerking for Justice Scalia ...