peter: cory bennett of politico has it developed world wide? cory: you can straight up purchase technology and sign a contract with a company in the u.s. but, perhaps, one of the more interesting and less understood ways to acquire sensitive technology is through an investment in that company. it's not a very traditional way we think about acquiring something. we think about a very old school model of mergers and acquisitions where, you know, big steal buys -- big steel buys little steel. today you can have some sort of insight into sensitive technology by, say, an early stage investment in a company that is not yet proven. you can be a seed funder when it is still in a -- in the a series of funding. you can develop a joint venture, a joint partnership. these can be several ways you can have some degree of access to this technology without necessarily gaining the insight or triggering some sort of oversight mechanism. there are these new ways, which is one of the things we were looking at that people can get access to the sensitive technology. p

peter: cory bennett of politico has it developed world wide? cory: you can straight up purchase technology and sign a contract with a company in the u.s. but, perhaps, one of the more interesting and less understood ways to acquire sensitive technology is through an investment in that company. it's not a very traditional way we think about acquiring so