布雷克·马斯特斯

布莱克·盖兹·马斯特斯（英语：Blake Gates Masters，1986年8月5日—）为一名美国创业投资家及政治候选人。马斯特斯经常被视为是商人彼得·泰尔的门徒，而他也根据自己2012年在斯坦福法学院做的笔记，在2014年与泰尔合着了《从零到一》。

2022年8月，马斯特斯在2022年亚利桑那州参议院选举初选中成为共和党提名的候选人。他在同年11月的选举中输给了现任民主党籍参议员马克·凯利。

Blake Gates Masters (born August 5, 1986) is an American venture capitalist, author, former political candidate, and conspiracy theorist. Often regarded as a protégé of venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Masters co-wrote Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future with Thiel in 2014, based on notes Masters had taken at Stanford Law School in 2012. He later served as chief operating officer (COO) of Thiel's investment firm, Thiel Capital, as well as president of the Thiel Foundation.

In the 2022 United States Senate election in Arizona, Masters defeated state Attorney General Mark Brnovich and businessman Jim Lamon to become the Republican Party nominee. He aligned himself with Thiel, who funded his primary campaign with $15 million, and Donald Trump, both of whom endorsed him in June 2022. Masters lost the general election to incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly, receiving the fewest votes among all statewide Republican candidates in the 2022 Arizona elections. The Washington Post called him one of the "worst candidates of the 2022 election."

Masters ran for the U.S. House in 2024 for Arizona's 8th congressional district. He lost the Republican primary to Abraham Hamadeh, coming in second.

Early life and education

Masters was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1986, the son of Marilyn, who ran a tutoring center, and Scott Masters, who worked in the software industry. He grew up in Tucson, Arizona. In high school, Masters attended Green Fields Country Day School, a private school in Tucson, where he played basketball. He graduated in 2004. Masters received a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University in 2008. He then earned a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2012.

Blog posts

As a teenage undergraduate, Masters expressed his political views on a CrossFit chat room and a LiveJournal blog. In a 2006 essay criticizing the War in Iraq on the libertarian site LewRockwell.com, Masters decried U.S. entry into World War I and described a quote from Nazi Hermann Goering on the susceptibility of the masses to incitements of war, as being "particularly representative and poignant". He also endorsed conspiracy theorist G. Edward Griffin's claim that the "Houses of Morgan and Rothschild" were linked to the sinking of the Lusitania.

During his college years, Masters contended that Iraq and al-Qaeda were not "substantial threats to Americans", calling for "unrestricted immigration" and an isolationist foreign policy. On his 2006 writings, he told the Jewish Insider in 2022, "I was 19, writing in opposition to the Iraq War—a stance that turned out to be prescient. I went too far and stated that no recent American wars have been just." He added: "I suppose it was only a matter of time before I got called antisemitic for criticizing wartime propaganda in an essay I wrote as a teenager."

Masters' posts became a political issue after they were unearthed during his 2022 Senate campaign. The Anti-Defamation League criticized him, and Masters' primary rival Jim Lamon ran television ads highlighting the posts.

Work with Peter Thiel and political involvement

Masters spent four months in 2010 as a law clerk for a U.S. Attorney's Office. In January 2011 he met Thiel at Stanford Law School. They exchanged emails with each other a year later and Thiel invited Masters to attend a class he was to teach in spring 2012. Masters would post detailed notes from Thiel's lectures on a blog which grew popular within the tech community. Renditions of Masters' notes reappeared online, prompting Masters to get in contact with Thiel about compiling them into a book. Zero to One was released in September 2014 and received warm reviews from The Atlantic and Publishers Weekly. According to Politico, the book portrayed "globalization as the enemy of innovation." Masters was included on Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2014.