Two years in the past, Jacob Helberg, a little-known tech business adviser, convened a dinner between lawmakers and a small group of Silicon Valley insiders on Washington’s Embassy Row. Funded partially by billionaire investor Peter Thiel’s enterprise agency, the group was not distinctive for its wealth or clout — the folks concerned had loads of each — however for its members’ eagerness to eschew the business’s long-held beliefs of boundaryless expertise for an alternate imaginative and prescient rooted in American nationalism and an anti-China would possibly.
