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Given that the first $500 million of Facebook investment came from In-Q-Tel, a CIA company that invests in deep data mining systems, it isn't hard to wonder whe
by qwertzlcoatl 13y ago
Given that the first $500 million of Facebook investment came from In-Q-Tel, a CIA company that invests in deep data mining systems, it isn't hard to wonder whether Facebook's security officer could have been an employee of the NSA all along.
- prostoalex 13y agoIn-Q-Tel never invested in Facebook.
- qwertzlcoatl 13y agoPlease ignore what I said, I was posting something I grabbed of somewhere without verifying first. In-Q-Tel never made any public investment in Facebook. The only connections that exist are the following: Facebook received $12.7 million in venture capital from Accel, whose manager, James Breyer, now sits on the In-Q-Tel board. He was formerly the chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, whose board included Gilman Louie, then the CEO of In-Q-Tel. One of the main managers of the facebook investors "Greylock partners", Howard Cox, sits also in the management board of In-Q-Tel. The offices of Greylock and In-Q-Tel are direclty next to each other at Sandhill Road in Menlo Park.
- prostoalex 13y agoFor context you should mention that total historical portfolio of Accel and Greylock includes hundreds of companies. So the conspiracy theory would have to map to Diapers.com or Rovio.
- mh- 13y agosource..?