Well, this was just a question of time. Blake Masters, the co-author of tech pioneer Peter Thiel’s blockbuster “Zero to One,” and now a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Arizona, is offering NFTs with a limit of 99 copies.
With the NFTs, Blake wants to get support from people “who are less conventional political donors and more founders and builders who want to see new thinking and new energy in our politics.”
Blake is leaning into his Silicon Valley ties with an “Origins NFT” that shows a rotating rendition of the early cover art he used to help persuade Thiel, his former Stanford Law professor, to collaborate on “Zero to One,” published in 2014.
These NFTs will go to donors who give the maximum of $5,800 that is half for the primary, and half for the general election if he wins.
Masters, who lives in his native Tucson, helps run Thiel Capital, a multibillion-dollar firm that invests in tech startups, and is president of the Thiel Foundation.
The idea is to give donors a sense of ownership. Real-life events are planned for the virtual club.