Having done a number of pure + ‘company’ startups, it’s very common to have Delaware as filing state because tax laws are business friendly. In my experience post 9/11 things were hush hush but they’d issue press releases about such (some pertaining to the things they had me do are still there). BTW for those who don’t know, “IQT” = Intel + Tech with “Q” in the middle (referring to James Bond lore). The greatest experience in my life was to see such things I built on display in the ‘company’ museum in a display near a big chunk of the Berlin Wall and section of wall from the infamous bug-infested Russian embassy (below ground, no public visitors since you have to be there to see) ... I/we never then envisioned or contemplated such things could be used for ill purposes ;(
Fascinating.
I, too, have done Delaware startup companies ... but no ‘company’ startups.