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Being founded with funding from the CIA's venture capital arm seems tantamount to "CIA roots"
by RobotToaster 4mo ago
Being founded with funding from the CIA's venture capital arm seems tantamount to "CIA roots"
- l23k4 4mo agoYes, it would not be unreasonable to say that funding originating from In-Q-Tel has "CIA roots". If someone claimed to have a CIA background solely on the basis that In-Q-Tel funded their mapping software, they'd be a charlatan. Just as a guy selling toilet paper to the CIA is not necessarily someone embedded in the intelligence community.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago> Being founded with funding from the CIA's venture capital arm seems tantamount to "CIA roots" For the company, it’s a stretch but tenable. Saying the “founder has CIA roots” solely because they took an In-Q-Tel cheque is just wrong.