Blake Masters

Blake Masters is an American venture capitalist and author who co-wrote Zero to One with Peter Thiel, based on notes he took in Thiel's 2012 startup course at Stanford, where he was a law student. He later served as chief operating officer of Thiel Capital and president of the Thiel Foundation. He was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona in 2022, losing to Mark Kelly, and ran unsuccessfully for a House seat in 2024.