Vance became a protégé of Peter Thiel, a PayPal co-founder who is considered something of a kingmaker in Silicon Valley. When Vance ran for Senate, Thiel fueled his run with a $15 million donation>
PayPal is sold to Ebay >
Elon Musk creates SpaceX >
OpenCoin develops Ripple protocol >
16z invests in OpenCoin >
OpenCoin becomes Ripple >
Elon Musk & Peter Thiel, a16z invest in Stripe >
CTO of OpenCoin, Jed McCaleb develops Stellar >
Stripe invests in Stellar >
Donald Trump creates Space Force >
Elon Musk forms X holding group >
Elon Musk attempts acquisition of Twitter >
Changes Name to X
President Trump Picks JD Vance as VP
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