AZ SENATE: Blake Masters (R)
Blake Masters grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and married his high school sweetheart, Catherine, in 2012. The couple continue to call Tucson home and it is where they are now raising and homeschooling their three sons, Miles, Graham, and Rex.
After graduating from Stanford and Stanford Law School, Master co-founded a successful software startup called Judicata. In 2014, he co-authored the #1 New York Times bestseller “Zero to One,” a book on startups and venture capital. It has since sold more than 4 million copies worldwide.
In 2015, Masters became president of the Thiel Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes science and innovation. The foundation’s Thiel Fellowship Program has paid 225 young people to drop out of college so that they can create new companies.
Masters says businesses started by Thiel Fellows are now worth more than $45 billion.
From 2018 to 2022, he was chief operating officer at Thiel Capital, an investment firm that specializes in the technology sector, where he helped grow assets under management by billions of dollars.
Masters was a member of former President Donald Trump’s transition team in 2016 and he received Trump’s endorsement on June 2, 2022.
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