@DawnDusk I was wondering how Mike Janke managed to make enough money to get involved in cybersecurity VC (he'd need probably $10 mil plus), so I did a bit of digging. Turns out the first company he started was:
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Basically military glowie stuff, staffing FOBs, doing security for embassies, etc. Presumably Mike Janke had a big network of guys from the SEALs who he could reach out to in order to get this off the ground. The business model for contractors like this is basically to take ex-military or glowies who are all trained up and cleared already, poach them to work for a private sector firm, and then charge the government several times what it would cost to hire them directly. Why do this? Good question. The military industrial complex works in mysterious ways.