Five things to know about J.D. Vance’s ties to tech billionaires

Photo: Silicon Valley facing southward towards Downtown San Jose on June 1, 2014. Photo credit: Coolcaesar via Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 3.0. Article by Bobby Allyn. NPR – July 17, 2024.

While Ohio Senator J.D. Vance’s Appalachian roots are well-known, thanks to his best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” another aspect of Vance’s background is now gaining attention: His connection to prominent Silicon Valley billionaires. Vance’s 2016 book about the struggles of his childhood was published right around the time he began to quietly cement his ties to a cadre of mega-wealthy tech powerbrokers […]

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