Shanley

And that venture capital firm is called In-Q-Tel.

And they have funded over 800 startups.

Yes, it's totally wild.

And I always tell this story, you know, I worked at startups in Silicon Valley.

I worked in database startups, internet infrastructure, APIs, like, you know, infrastructure service, stuff like that.

I went to a big data conference and, like,

Maybe like 2012 or something like that.

I don't say I don't know for sure which one it was, but it was in New York.

There was all all these companies there.

One of the keynote speakers was the chief technology officer of the CIA.

She's crazy.

Yeah.

So none of this has been a secret to people in the industry.

The CIA operates openly in the industry and invests openly in the industry.

But he got on stage and he said, our goal is to collect all of the data in the world and save it forever.

Yeah.

And I looked around me to see if anyone else was... And this was months before the Snowden revelations.

So the CIA was openly admitting to all of this stuff anyways.

But point being, you know, and In-Q-Tel has been so key to this because they have brought all of the venture capital startups into the government, into intelligence, and into defense, right?

From the CIA's perspective, this has also given them a revenue source and a way to operate outside of just the government budget.