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> If this still bothers you, please tell me what kind of organization would exist to support 25 years of false starts

Government, academia, VCs in industries with slower payoffs than software (i.e., most, including biotech).

OTOH, deciding which series of decades of false starts are worth continuing to support and which to cut off is...well, not an exact science would be an epic understatement.




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