| ▲ | ai_fry_ur_brain 8 hours ago |
| Niantics founder has CIA roots... None of this is surprising. https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/302386307352562 |
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| ▲ | u8080 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| AFAIR, there is a chain of companies which connects Niantic to govt agencies, they were selling this data to Uncle Sam from the beginning(even before Pokemon GO) |
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| ▲ | l23k4 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Niantics founder has CIA roots This is not at all an honest way of saying "Niantics founder raised money from In-Q-Tel" |
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| ▲ | RobotToaster 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Being founded with funding from the CIA's venture capital arm seems tantamount to "CIA roots" | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Being founded with funding from the CIA's venture capital arm seems tantamount to "CIA roots" For the company, it’s a stretch but tenable. Saying the “founder has CIA roots” solely because they took an In-Q-Tel cheque is just wrong. | |
| ▲ | l23k4 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, it would not be unreasonable to say that funding originating from In-Q-Tel has "CIA roots". If someone claimed to have a CIA background solely on the basis that In-Q-Tel funded their mapping software, they'd be a charlatan. Just as a guy selling toilet paper to the CIA is not necessarily someone embedded in the intelligence community. |
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| ▲ | kaladin-jasnah 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Isn't Oxide Computer also funded by In-Q-Tel? |
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