# JD Vance First Degree Connections The **full directly-connected map** for [[JD Vance]] — every person, fund, company, and institution with a documented first-degree tie, annotated by the *type* of tie. Broader than [[JD Vance Inner Circle]]; this is the whole one-hop neighborhood. The capital view is [[Musk-Thiel Funding Map]]. > "First degree" = a tie Vance holds personally (patron, employer, co-founder, funder, documented associate, office relationship). ## People — by tie type | Person | Tie type | Note | |---|---|---| | [[Peter Thiel]] | Patron | The pipeline; [[Mithril Capital]] employer; [[Narya Capital]] backer | | [[David Sacks]] | Ally / bundler | 2022 super PAC; VP-pick lobbying | | [[Donald Trump]] | Principal | President; chose him as VP | | [[Elon Musk]] | Ally / broker counterpart | Vance brokered the 2026 Musk–Trump reconciliation dinner | | [[Chris Buskirk]] | Co-founder | [[Rockbridge Network]] | | [[Nate Fischer]] | Organizer | New Right infra | | [[Marc Andreessen]] · [[Eric Schmidt]] | Fund backers | [[Narya Capital]] | | [[Curtis Yarvin]] | Intellectual influence | NRx | | [[Patrick Deneen]] | Intellectual mentor | Post-liberalism | | [[Michael Kratsios]] | Policy ally | OSTP | | [[Stephen Miller]] | Policy ally | Charlie Kirk Show segment | | [[Leonard Leo]] | Network tie | Judicial/Catholic right | | [[Trae Stephens]] · [[Palmer Luckey]] | Defense-tech ties | [[Anduril]] (Vance invested pre-politics) | | [[Pope Leo XIV]] | Public counterpart | 2026 clashes (see [[JD Vance Quotes]]) | | [[Rob Bonta]] | Office adversary | [[Democratic AGs Boycott Fraud Roundtable]] | ## Funds, companies & infrastructure The holdings detail is in [[JD Vance Holdings]]. First-degree entities: - [[Narya Capital]] (co-founder) · [[Mithril Capital]] (ex-principal) · [[Rockbridge Network]] (co-founder) - Portfolio: True Anomaly ([[Space Force]] contracts), [[Rumble]], AppHarvest (bankrupt), Atomic; [[Anduril]] (via Rise of the Rest) ## Office & institutional nodes | Entity | Tie | |---|---| | Office of the Vice President | The role itself | | [[Task Force to Eliminate Fraud]] | Chair (2026) | | [[Defense Tech Conflicts of Interest]] | The structural-conflict web | ## See Also - [[JD Vance Inner Circle]] — the trusted core subset - [[JD Vance Holdings]] — the entity side in detail - [[JD Vance Campaign Finance]] — the money behind him - [[Thiel Network]] · [[Musk-Thiel Funding Map]] - [[JD Vance Dossier]]