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Re:The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can by adolph on Friday June 23, 2023 @10:12AM (#36447076)
Maybe given the history of things the concept of “Silicon Valley money,” in terms of margin, was set by very generous terms from the Cold War era military procurement.

The first initial public offering from Silicon Valley was in 1956 for a company called Varian, that sold microwave tubes for military applications.

https://diginomica.com/who-are-we-kidding-silicon-valley-was...

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Re:The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can by red-iron-pine on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:27PM (#36449093)
Aye, SV was a hub of Navy research and activity since before WWI. Moffett Field, the early version of NASA, and Stanford all made it a thing long before some 90s dotcom asplosion.
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