VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2025

Taiwan’s TSMC announced $100 billion investment in US chipmaking And finally, RIP Skype. and team Grain on coming out of stealth with $50M in funding ($33M series A and previously undisclosed seed) to help any business hedge against FX volatility! T-Mobile and Perplexity are teaming up on an AI phone.

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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. In 1949, the Soviets exploded their first nuclear weapon and ended the U.S

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The downside is that, unlike past DoD technology development – where the DoD leads it, can control it, and has the most advanced technology (like stealth and electronic warfare), in most cases the DoD will not have the most advanced algorithms or models. The analogy for AI is closer to microelectronics than it is EW.

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