> Who? Not Google, etc. First, I said "not directly consumer oriented ones", which are the minority of SV companies. That said: Digital, HP, Intel, Honeywell,

> Who? Not Google, etc. First, I said "not directly consumer oriented ones", which are the minority of SV companies. That said: Digital, HP, Intel, Honeywell, AMD, etc (e.g I'd argue Xerox PARC was largely funded via Xerox's government contracts). You also have a lot of the funding Stanford received coming from defense programs. While Google may not have started that way - hell, it started as a search engine and now it's an spyware and advertising company - it has started taking DARPA research contracts. But plenty of this era's SV companies are military contractors first (Palantir might be the biggest of this generation, but plenty of drone, ai, etc startups are targeting governments). > > This isn't new. > Why do people love to say that? Because it's not? One of the reasons people will say true statements, is because they prefer honesty to idealized mythology.