While best known as author of the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” which detailed the plights and concerns of Rust Belt voters, Vance also has close ties to the tech industry.
Donald Trump ’s selection of Sen. JD Vance as his 2024 running mate is seen as a potential windfall for Silicon Valley — and
Vance also supports an antitrust crackdown on dominant Big Tech giants like Google who are accused of stifling smaller rivals — a popular position with so-called “little tech” startups backed by tech VCs. He is one of a handful of so-called “Khanservatives,” or Republican lawmakers who have expressed support for Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Lina Khan — a Democrat who has rankled some establishment Republicans with a series of aggressive antitrust actions.
Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov also celebrated the choice, writing emphatically on X: “WE HAVE A FORMER TECH VC IN THE WHITE HOUSE. GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH BABY.”
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