> VC won't touch anything with an export ban (the potential market size has just been reduced from 8 billion people down to 300 million) Is there any indicatio

> VC won't touch anything with an export ban (the potential market size has just been reduced from 8 billion people down to 300 million) Is there any indication this technology would be made entirely unavailable outside the US? > Companies already in the field have to fire all their remote non-US workers and non-US customers. And that usually, together with the lack of new VC funding, kills the company. This is not the case, multinational companies operate under export control regulations as a matter of course. It sometimes requires compartmentalization and not everybody can work on everything, naturally. > The only exception is if the US military pays for R&D instead, but in that case typically everything is kept secret and nobody gets to use it except some missiles. Is that really typical? The US military has paid for a lot of R&D for things we use every day, jet engines, civilian rocket and satellite technology and many other aerospace technoloies, GPS, the internet, EUV lithography, off the top of my head.