Vance worked at Mithril Capital, a VC firm backed by Peter Thiel, in 2016. One former coworker previously told Business Insider that Vance was often away from the job promoting his book, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Thiel ended up being instrumental in Vance’s rise to power in politics, donating $15 million to his Senate campaign and encouraging Trump to choose Vance as his running mate, The New York Times reported.
Vance went on to work at Revolution, a VC firm in Washington, DC, before founding his own firm, Narya Capital, in 2019.
Meanwhile, Usha Vance worked as a litigator at Munger, Tolles & Olson before leaving to clerk for Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the US Court of Appeals and Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts. Following her clerkships, she returned to Munger, Tolles & Olson, according to a bio on the firm’s website that has since been removed.
In his new memoir, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” JD Vance wrote that Usha Vance told him that she wanted to land a prestigious Supreme Court clerkship not out of ambition, but as an “insurance policy,” saying, “It’s so prestigious that if I do it and then have kids, it won’t ruin my career.”
