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Re:SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Speaks to an Almost Empty Room a... by Agathos on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:40PM (#21413499)
Between the Bayh-Dole Act, DARPA, NASA, the NSF Seed fund, and Department of Energy loans (I seem to recall the A123 loan was a political football for a while) doesn't the US already put a lot of money into technology startups?

The only difference is, the US government doesn't take equity, and thank goodness for that. Imagine a political appointee on the board of every new technology company.

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Re:SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Speaks to an Almost Empty Room a... by wayoutthere on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:04PM (#21413701)
The three letter agencies do in fact place people on the boards and within the executive ranks of the companies the DoD awards contracts to.
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