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by viraptor 399 days ago
That's not a great generalisation for the whole country. How many ex Mossad people interested in doing actual implementation in tech companies do you think there are? It's like "aren't those US software companies all supposed to be top notch, ex NSA yadda yadda?"
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conradev 399 days ago
They do start a lot of tech companies specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200#Companies_founded_by...

The US only has voluntary military service, so the dynamics are different

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lysp 399 days ago
The CEO/Founder of TeleMessage Guy Levit was the head of the Planning and Development Department of an elite technical unit in the Intelligence Corps of the IDF according to bio.
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aorloff 392 days ago
I guess we could say that in many ways, he never left
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