Across the Atlantic, the book has become associated with another disruptive tendency in modern politics, the rightwing libertarians of Silicon Valley. From the start, the book was better received in the US, where futurology and polemics against the state are more mainstream genres. In 2011, almost a decade and a half after the book's publication, Rees-Mogg was still being invited there to talk about it, to students at Stanford University, one of Silicon Valley's prime recruiting grounds. In 2014, Peter Thiel, the intellectually restless, fiercely conservative co-founder of PayPal, told the business magazine Forbes that The Sovereign Individual had influenced him more than any other book.
