Osnos: Investors systematically choose non-firearm ventures over firearm technologies
Evan Osnos · a16z Podcast | Politics Over Pragmatism -- On China, Trump, and Smart Guns? · Jan 2, 2019 · at 39:40
Evan Osnos, New Yorker staff writer, discusses why venture capital funding for smart gun innovation remains scarce.
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“In the end, you're still asking investors to put money behind a firearm, and if you're choosing between putting money behind a firearm or something else, it's easy to choose the something else.”
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