 After Yale Law School, J.D. Vance worked for a law firm. That's what almost every law student does. You want to take your degree and figure out how it's used in the real life. But he got bored with that. He didn't like it. And so he went into private equity. And who did he work for? None other than Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel, T-H-I-E-L, is a very controversial conservative billionaire who has been an ally of Donald Trump for a very long time. He's a Silicon Valley guy.