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It's a dirty, open secret that Stanford and most ivy leagues also participated in and continue to benefit from the military-industrial complex.

And checkout this partial list of openly-known startups with In-Q-Tel (CIA-affiliated) VC funding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Investments



The list is shocking for me, and an even more shocking thought is that probably most of these startups are useless today. Google alone can now provide maybe more half of the technologies these startups tried to achieve in the 2000s.


I think many people have realised that FAANG is just a rebrand of mil-ind decorated with brightly coloured office furniture.




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