Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Russia fine on Google is largest than the world’s total GDP (!). Congratulations Elad Raz and team NextSilicon for coming out of stealth with a $100M series C round (and over $300M raised to date) to create the next generation of AI semiconductors, starting with Maverick 2! Meta released MobileLLM.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) Think of the most amazing spectrum analyzer you could build with 1960s technology. Then think some more. It was like trying to fly a whale through a fish tank and not get noticed.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. Instead of rebuilding its WWII forces, the U.S.

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