Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Notice also a lead-funding role in several of these startups by the prominent Palo Alto-based VC firm. Draper Fisher Jurvetson, via the patriarch of nano-company ventures, Steve Jurvetson. A profitable exit strategy for Jurvetson might be to merge a subset of these venture-backed companies into a single entity that is then flipped (sold) to an Intel-like superpower semiconductor outfit. While that might not be the optimal financial outcome... 

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