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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

Whether you like it or not, or know it or not, you’re coming of age at just that extraordinary time in human development. Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. And some governments learned how to turn radio into a weapon of mass deception. Let me be honest about my bias.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

North Korea. They can do so because most have little legacy organizational baggage, no government overhead, some of the best software talent in the world, cheap manpower costs, no career risk when attempting new unproven feats and ultimately no fear of failure. Yet in the last decade the U.S. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 34: Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken

Steve Blank

How do you drop those on North Korea? . Blinken : We found that defectors getting out of North Korea have much greater access than we thought to technology, much of it coming in from China. Then the question is, will their governments allow them to use it and if not, are there workarounds? .