3 Prominent Tech Reporters got Defense Tech Wrong--Here's the Real Story

Defense and dual-use technologies

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Many tourists to the Defense Tech industry believe that the White House ignited the industry boom. They’re wrong.

We’ve long been big fans of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast on startups and venture funding. Last week,

Kirsten Korosec

was joined by Maxwell Zeff and Anthony Ha on Equity’s Friday Wrap-Up show. These are three brilliant and prominent tech reporters.

Naturally, the show turned to Defense Tech, which is currently one of the hottest, buzziest, and frothiest tech sectors at the moment.

But here’s what these tech reporters—and most people—get wrong about Defense Tech: they credited the current administration with generating the buzz around Defense Tech. But that’s 100% backwards.

To be fair, Kirsten did mention that the sector had seen some success prior to the administration, but still, the three largely credited the admin.

We’ve demonstrated before that the explosion in Defense Tech was long coming.

Steve Blank

, who presented The Secret History of Silicon Valley to the CIA and In-Q-Tel year…