I am deeply offended by someone associating Thiel with vampires. That idea is completely absurd. Vampires are famous for being handsome, interesting, elegant, well educated, and having impeccable taste for fashion. Thiel has none of these traits.
Vampires are famously metaphors for aristocrats. Zombies are metaphors for the "common horde". I wonder if there's a monster metaphor for the "noveau riche", people with all the money and none of the style. Can't think of one.
I'd bet on some sort of dragon teenager. Dragons are hoarders and measure success by how much gold they are sitting on. They are insecure, obsessed with being perceived as powerful, and sometimes like to pretend to be aristocracy, without possessing the heritage. Often crass and tacky, they also burn what they can't own.
Old dragons probably would be wiser, and more aware of their character failings.
