section_path: Post-government career (2021–2024)/Business affairs
section_name: Business affairs
paragraph_text: Business affairs
  
  After Trump left office in 2021, Patel managed Trishul, a consulting company. He founded The Kash Foundation, a nonprofit that helps participants in the January 6 United States Capitol attack pay legal costs and sells merchandise branded as K$H. According to a Trump Media & Technology Group filing, Patel worked for Trump as a paid national security advisor. Patel was listed as the director of Trump Media & Technology Group in April 2022. As director, he described promoting QAnon -adjacent accounts on Truth Social, Trump Media's social media service, as an intentional business decision to "capture audiences". In June 2022, Patel was paid $130,000 to investigate claims that the company's co-founders, Andy Dean and Wes Moss, had "fostered an unpredictable and toxic corporate culture". His report was later included in a legal dispute over Dean's and Moss's shares in the company. Patel was also named to Russell Vought 's Center for Renewing America. For nine months in 2024, Patel was a consultant for Elite Depot, a company based in the Cayman Islands that operates Shein, an e-commerce platform.
  
  After Trump left office in 2021, Patel managed Trishul, a consulting company. He founded The Kash Foundation, a nonprofit that helps participants in the January 6 United States Capitol attack pay legal costs and sells merchandise branded as K$H. According to a Trump Media & Technology Group filing, Patel worked for Trump as a paid national security advisor. Patel was listed as the director of Trump Media & Technology Group in April 2022. As director, he described promoting QAnon -adjacent accounts on Truth Social, Trump Media's social media service, as an intentional business decision to "capture audiences". In June 2022, Patel was paid $130,000 to investigate claims that the company's co-founders, Andy Dean and Wes Moss, had "fostered an unpredictable and toxic corporate culture". His report was later included in a legal dispute over Dean's and Moss's shares in the company. Patel was also named to Russell Vought 's Center for Renewing America. For nine months in 2024, Patel was a consultant for Elite Depot, a company based in the Cayman Islands that operates Shein, an e-commerce platform.