# Jacob Helberg First Degree Connections The **full directly-connected map** for [[Jacob Helberg]] — every person, company, and institution with a documented first-degree tie, annotated by the *type* of tie. Broader than [[Jacob Helberg Inner Circle]]; this is the whole one-hop neighborhood. > "First degree" = a tie Helberg holds personally (employer, patron, co-founder, principal, documented associate). ## People — by tie type | Person | Tie type | Note | |---|---|---| | [[Alex Karp]] | Employer/patron | Senior Advisor to the Palantir CEO | | [[Peter Thiel]] | Network anchor | [[Palantir]] chairman | | [[Marco Rubio]] | Principal | Secretary of State | | [[Delian Asparouhov]] | Co-founder | [[Hill and Valley Forum]]; [[Founders Fund]] | | Christian Garrett | Co-founder | [[Hill and Valley Forum]] | | [[Eric Schmidt]] | Tech-statecraft peer | Overlapping AI/China-policy orbit | ## Companies & institutions (employer / affiliation) - [[Palantir]] (Senior Advisor to CEO) · Google (former News/information-policy lead) - [[Hill and Valley Forum]] (co-founder) · [[U.S. Department of State]] (Under Secretary for Economic Affairs) - US–China Economic and Security Review Commission (member, 2022–2024) ## Policy & framework nodes | Node | Tie | |---|---| | [[Pax Silica]] | His flagship framework | | [[Tech Decoupling]] | Core doctrine | | [[The Wires of War]] | His 2021 book | | [[Defense Tech Conflicts of Interest]] | The angel-portfolio-vs-office question | ## See Also - [[Jacob Helberg Inner Circle]] — the trusted core subset - [[Jacob Helberg Holdings]] — the angel portfolio - [[Hill and Valley Forum]] · [[Pax Silica]] - [[Jacob Helberg Dossier]]