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#29 Erik Prince - Inside The Rise and Fall of Blackwater

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The Machine That Changed the World

When i got out of the navy, and our first customer was in early 98. So it was lean find a way to survive for the first two or three years. And so parallel, it's a kind of building blackwater i'm doing. I'm trying to help a manufacturing business get better. It was a training facility. But then as you think, how do you grow beyond that? How do you serve the custom of war?And i thought, what oes a military do? Right? It recruits, it vets, it equips, it trains, deploys and supports people to do difficult job in a difficult place.

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