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Sheldon Whitehouse: “You might actually find value in it as a screener of really bad ideas that nobody would put money behind.”

On the recordMarch 31, 2014
You might actually find value in it as a screener of really bad ideas that nobody would put money behind.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse suggests private capital can filter out ineffective political ideas.

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