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DARPA's commercialization track record is decidedly mixed, so the VC comparison is unexpectedly apt :-) (But yes: DARPA's mandate is explicitly to discover and
by woodruffw 2y ago
DARPA's commercialization track record is decidedly mixed, so the VC comparison is unexpectedly apt :-)
(But yes: DARPA's mandate is explicitly to discover and develop the next generation of emerging technologies for military use.)
- pfdietz 2y agoDecades ago, as my father explained to me, ARPA (no "D" at that time) was happy if 1% of their projects went all the way through to successful deployment. If they had a higher success rate it would mean they weren't aiming high enough.
- VikingCoder 2y ago> DARPA's commercialization track record is decidedly mixed... If you count my number of attempts, sure. If you count by impact, it's hard to come up with many things more impactful than the Internet...?
- woodruffw 2y agoYeah, I meant by number. But also: ARPA didn't commercialize the Internet! They explicitly refused to commercialize it; commercialization only happened after an Act of Congress induced interconnections between NSFNET and commercial networks.