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Izrael's startup ecosystem heavily relies on ex-military intelligence officers, they have an entire pipeline for hiring them into startups. https://www.forbes.

Izrael's startup ecosystem heavily relies on ex-military intelligence officers, they have an entire pipeline for hiring them into startups. https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2016/05/11/inside-israels-secret-startup-machine/#3b0b80461a51 https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2016/05/11/inside-...

Theodores 7y ago
Everyone in Israel has to do military service so you would be hard pushed to create a company selling pea shooters that did not have ex-military in it. As for 'military intelligence' that is a large part of what the military actually is, so you would expect them to graduate into tech roles rather than making pea shooters or anything else 'harmless'.
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  According to Wikipedia everyone in China has compulsory military service, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army Makes the revelation that "some people working at Huawei have links to Chinese military" just so shocking. Trump's totally right we should all buy USA tech and not use Huawei for 5G. /s When's the list for other countries being published?
  - PakG1 7y ago
    If you're going to write that, then also post https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_China because most Chinese people don't seem to serve in the military. It's not like South Korea where young men famously dread the time they have to go to the military.
    - unicornfinder 7y ago
      Indeed. I was doing some research a while back on which countries do and don't have conscription and it's a surprisingly hard line to draw. A lot of countries have it in name, but don't in practice, and the line between having and not having conscription is surprisingly blurry.
  - swuecho 7y ago
    Actually, a lot Chinese family consider military service as some kind of 'education' for their kids, especially in rural area. At least in the area I come from, you have to bribe someone to get the quota to serve in the military.

Theodores 7y ago

Everyone in Israel has to do military service so you would be hard pushed to create a company selling pea shooters that did not have ex-military in it. As for 'military intelligence' that is a large part of what the military actually is, so you would expect them to graduate into tech roles rather than making pea shooters or anything else 'harmless'.

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
According to Wikipedia everyone in China has compulsory military service, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army Makes the revelation that "some people working at Huawei have links to Chinese military" just so shocking. Trump's totally right we should all buy USA tech and not use Huawei for 5G. /s When's the list for other countries being published?
- PakG1 7y ago
  If you're going to write that, then also post https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_China because most Chinese people don't seem to serve in the military. It's not like South Korea where young men famously dread the time they have to go to the military.
  - unicornfinder 7y ago
    Indeed. I was doing some research a while back on which countries do and don't have conscription and it's a surprisingly hard line to draw. A lot of countries have it in name, but don't in practice, and the line between having and not having conscription is surprisingly blurry.
- swuecho 7y ago
  Actually, a lot Chinese family consider military service as some kind of 'education' for their kids, especially in rural area. At least in the area I come from, you have to bribe someone to get the quota to serve in the military.