J.D. Vance’s bona fides for a run to the U.S. Senate in 2022 largely rested on two things—the success of his Rust Belt memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which captured the plight of the white working class, and a career in venture capital that began in 2016 at Mithril, the firm founded by billionaire investor and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel.
But according to some of Vance’s former colleagues, the new vice presidential nominee’s track record at the fund that gave him his start wasn’t all that memorable.
