Silicon Valley Was Also Built by Law: Can Rio's Tech Agenda Reach Brasília?
The internet began as a Pentagon project.
GPS was military infrastructure long before it was on our phones.
NASA bought the Valley's first chips, for Apollo.
Bayh-Dole Act (1980) let universities like Stanford turn federally funded research into companies (read $$$).
US tax rules turned stock options into the currency of startup talent (in Brazil, they risk being taxed as salary, so few dare to use them).
To turn Rio into the AI capital of Latin America, we’ll need a little bit, just a little bit, of Brasília.
Which…

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