# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/blake-masters
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:10:54.023Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/blake-masters"
name: "Blake Masters"
slug: "blake-masters"
description: "Blake Gates Masters 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."
tagline: "American venture capitalist and author (born 1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Blake_Masters_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1986-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.83
  momentum:             0.6040727073937406
  historical:           7.279324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/bgmasters"
    handle:    "bgmasters"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12753985/"
    handle:    "nm12753985"
sources:
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    title: "布雷克·馬斯特斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Masters"
    title: "Blake Masters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Masters"
    title: "Blake Masters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Masters"
    title: "Blake Masters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "بلیک مسترز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Masters"
    title: "Blake Masters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Masters"
    title: "Blake Masters"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20707564"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1229856"
    title: "Blake Masters"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump