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James “Hondo” Geurts former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research Development and Acquisition joins Lucas Bagno and Ian Cinnamon on this episode. Takeaways:

- What kept Hondo up at night was that there was a good idea out there that wasn’t passed on to him and thus wasn’t used on the battlefield.

- A society can’t be secure without prosperity and can’t have prosperity without security.

- The challenge for startups working with government is that the public is a fickle venture capita

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