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> …through their contacts in the federal government. In other words it’s not what you know but who you know and the key is to know people who know other people
by throwawaycities 5y ago
> …through their contacts in the federal government.
In other words it’s not what you know but who you know and the key is to know people who know other people who can get you that sweet sweet tax payer funded government money. Not to get political but that’s why you had Trump’s son in law and daughter working in the White House and Biden’s kid went straight from rehab to $10M contracts with the government of China to selling his art for $500k a pop.
- busterarm 5y agoNot exactly. I'm familiar with my former colleague's research and his firm's work. It was groundbreaking, novel work with high utility. He broke ground on an important, mostly-overlooked area of hardware security and built a world-class product. The DARPA money and contracts were well-deserved and exactly the sort of research that government money should be going to.
- gurumeditations 5y agoThe connections are what enable you to create that in the first place. He’s not going to create it in his bedroom by himself and by virtue of that, have contracts land in his lap. There are lots of great things people could do, but they never get the opportunity to do them.