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4. Why You Should Work in Defense Tech with Dylan Mullins & Sarah Hess

All Quiet on the Second Front

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The Importance of Retention in Government

I don't think I've gone a week without someone senior saying, Hey, can you help me understand commercial tech markets so I can get out of the government? Yeah. That's not a good sign, right? Like this exodus of institutional knowledge is potentially quite dangerous. So how do we, how can we solve that problem? I mean, that's a very good question. I don't have an answer. But it's also like I was working on tech when I was with the government. And at least there was almost this realization that I could probably do more good outside the government than I could inside the government.

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