American conservative commentator, politician, venture capitalist, and author, JD Vance, stands at 5 ft 9inches tall and weighs around 90kg.

After a stint at a corporate law firm, Vance moved to San Francisco to work in the technology industry. He serves as a principal at Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm, Mithril Capital.

He published Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis in 2016. It was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017. It was a finalist for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

The New York Times called it “one of the six best books to help understand Trump’s win”. The Washington Post called him the “voice of the Rust Belt,” while The New Republic criticized him as “liberal media’s favorite white trash–splainer” and the “false prophet of blue America”.

Economist William Easterly, a West Virginia native, criticized the book, “Sloppy analysis of collections of people—coastal elites, flyover America, Muslims, immigrants, people without college degrees, you name it—has become routine. And it’s killing our politics.”

In December 2016, Vance indicated that he planned to move to Ohio to start a nonprofit, and potentially run for office, and work on combating drug addiction in the Rust Belt.

In 2019, he co-founded Narya Capital in Cincinnati, Ohio, with financial backing from Peter Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen. In 2020, he raised $93 million for the firm. He has also invested in Rumble, a YouTube competitor.