Blake Masters is an American venture capitalist and author based in San Francisco. ^[1] He is the co-author of the book Zero to One with Peter Thiel. ^{[undefined] [undefined] [undefined] [1]} He currently serves as the President of the Thiel Foundation. ^[undefined]

Masters attended Stanford University and earned a Bachelor's degree in Political science in 2008. He briefly went to Duke University Law before transferring back to his alma mater Stanford to complete his legal studies. While at Stanford, Masters participated in the school's Federalist Society. He received his Juris Doctor from Stanford in 2012. ^{[1] [undefined] [undefined] [undefined]}

Masters first met Peter Thiel in January of 2011 when he signed up for a small seminar Thiel was teaching. Maters interned for him in the summer of 2011 at the Founders Fund in which Masters describes as "a crash course in thinking about the future." The next year in the spring of 2012, Masters took a class taught by Thiel named CS 183: Startup. ^{[undefined] [undefined] [undefined]}

In the class, Masters took detailed notes of Thiel's lectures and posted in a personal blog.

Master's notes became one of the most widely read articles in Silicon Valley.

^[undefined] Years later, Masters began seeing fake PDFs of his notes being passed around, which made him reconsider organizing his notes better in a book.

^[undefined] Together, Masters and Thiel co-authored Zero to One based on Masters' notes and published it in September 2014. The book became a #1 New York Times bestseller and a 4.5 star rating on Amazon Inc. ^{[undefined] [undefined]}

Out of undergrad, Blake worked in sales at the cloud company Box. After his first year of law school, Masters worked as a Law clerk for the United States Attorney's Office. In following summers, he was employed as a Summer Associate at O'Melveny & Myers and later the Founders Fund. After graduating from law school, Masters co-founded the startup Judicata which focused on automating legal intelligence. He left Judicata in 2014 and began to work for Thiel in two capacities, first as the Principal at Thiel Capital and later as President of The Thiel Foundation. ^[1]

Masters resides in San Francisco with his wife and two children.

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