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Former president Donald Trump makes an appearance during Jacob Helberg ’s address at this year’s Hill & Valley Forum. Jacob Helberg has never built a successful tech company, or led a major fund. But after rallying support for the TikTok ban bill, the former Democratic fundraiser has become one of Silicon Valley’s conduits to former president Donald Trump .
The reasons for Helberg's meteoric rise in GOP circles are as fuzzy as his own credentials. And despite appearing at high-profile policy events and garnering praise from Trump himself, it's hard to tell what he actually does from day to day. He “A lot of people have taken notice over time,” said Kevin Hartz, the founder of Eventbrite, who went to college with Rabois, and attended Helberg’s wedding. “He's got great relationships with people around him that are backing him.”
But Helberg wasn’t an employee of GeoQuant when it was incorporated in 2016 and wasn’t involved afterward, a person familiar with the company’s operations toldthat names its cofounders and its first employee. Two people familiar with the company’s origin story instead said Helberg worked with its cofounders to arrange temporary office space in its early start up days.
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