L.a. Tech Startups Get Big Cash Infusion as Silicon Valley Pivots to Defense
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L.A. tech startups are receiving significant investments as Silicon Valley shifts focus towards defense-related projects, sparking interest in the implications of this pivot.
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"They realized that there's so much money in the U.S. military that it was a way where they could get their VC 100x returns [post-ZIRP], William Fitzgerald, a former Google employee who protested Project Maven, said of today's shift in Silicon Valley thinking."
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