Venture capital takes the Capitol

When Teresa Carlson was running Amazon’s public sector cloud business in the 2010s, she said she tried to get venture capital engaged in Washington policy conversations. After all, VC invested in the tech that would work on the cloud to serve the government.

“They didn’t really back then,” Carlson told us recently. “It was like, ‘Really? Why?’”

It’d be hard to argue that’s still the case. READ MORE