Oh please. None of these companies started with big money. Gotta come up with a better conspiracy theory than that.
Not a conspiracy theory at all. Seed money is almost always provided by Silicon Valley angel investors looking to sell later at 15X to 30X pro forma earnings.
After these small companies pass their proof of concept, they are reviewed how they might be useful. In the context of social media, all are useful for surveillance. Enter the spook money which is channeled by front manager venture capitalists. The spook money comes from dark central banking channels. The Fed Reserve will never allow an audit of their books. Those in Congress who have pushed to audit the Fed Reserve were quickly retired, except for Ron Paul who was viewed as harmless, as a fringe outcast.
All of the above is documented except for the identities of the spooks. When talking to a spook contractor about future funding, the contractor may arrange a meeting with a heavy Venture Capitalist. One enters the office, sits in front of the desk. and observes all the military and government awards, certificates, service photos hung on the walls. Later, one hears the VC is an IC member or very close to them.
For many years, this system worked very well, run by true patriots who in turn funded young entrepreneurs who were also patriots. Ross Perot’s EDS was an example. Ellison’s Oracle is a CIA creation but Ellison was not always a patriot. In the 1990s, the culture started to change. The cool kids, Jobs, Gates, Allen, Parker, and many others became garage myths. Patriotism waned, Being technically ‘cool’ was the new paradigm.
Bezos never made a profit with Amazon until 2011, and then just barely, and not in all quarters. But it was enough to get a $600 million CIA investment for ‘Cloud Services’ and he was told to use about $120 million to buy the nearly bankrupt Washington Post. Later he got more funding and he still gets funding from ‘deep state’ entities.
The garage entrepreneurs are funded by small investors initially in a series of funding. To become giants, they need the spook money. But intel managers don’t give the money directly, they use fund managers who answer to them. Can’t get big without fund managers packaging an IPO and getting subscribers. the subscribers are fund managers who are told to get in. To get to the IPO stage, the garage operators have to be seen as an emerging asset for the ‘customer’, the Agency, the CIA. SAIC is one of the top CIA contractors that does the above, There are many others. The system is pretty much rigged.
An outsider entrepreneur doesn’t stand a chance. If they indeed invent a better mousetrap, they are bought out and forced to the sidelines. Or, if they are seen as malleable, they may be groomed to fold in with the Agency.