Only given consideration to more recently because of the phenomena. Well end up meeting the ceo a couple of months or whatever after we have made an investment it puts greater burden on us for Due Diligence and for the backgrounds of the people who are involved and the experience. Its probably going to end up with some good results actually. Thats interesting. Weve had some discussions on air about the degree to which lack of persontoperson meetings means can you close on a house, can you close on a transaction, but youre saying its not necessarily a deal killer it definitely is not. I think that will be for early stage companies. The Later Stage Companies where theres more substance involved and theyve been around longer is a bigger problem. Were in the early stage, a round, b round, period i think well have less of a concern about that we also obviously are focused a lot on follow on rounds for our existing portfolio which is fairly extensive at this point hi, alan, its jon fortt, go
Our event today on the google versus oracle case, titled consequences of the case. I actually have my own subtitle which is copyright and the future of the industry, a significant case and i am delighted to have 2 wilson here to speak to us about the relevant legal policy on commercial issues and raised by this case. My name is adam maasoff, the chair of the International Forum for intellectual property at the hudson institute. This is our novel even, delighted to have it on such an important issue with such a great speaker. There will be events, sponsoring and promoting datadriven research that explores and investigates the importance of intellectual property and not just driving the Us Innovation economy for the past 230 years but all innovation economies creating a foundation for Flourishing Society and we hope to play a role that factbased research and datadriven in the hands of our policymakers as they consider the very important issues such as decisions that have to be made in im
Familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization that is dedicated to convening and educating the Health Policy community through a balanced exchange of evidence. We are so thankful to bill pierce for supporting the alliance and putting on this series and with that support we have had the privilege of hosting many esteemed guests and Panel Discussions over the past couple of years including Joseph Grogan who im honored to welcome back today. I believe you have the distinction of being our first repeat guest. He joined us about a year ago when he was an associate director at omb and so we look forward to hearing about your new role and Health Care Priorities as the director of the Domestic Policy Council. Thank you for being here again, mr. Grogan. Thank you to all of you for being here and with that i will turn it over to bill to get us started. Thank you, kathryn. Welcome everybody, welcome on behalf of apco where with along with the alliance we think these are important
Programs i have the pleasure to welcome you all to her breakfast. For reporters if youre not familiar with the alliance a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to convening and educating the Health Policies and we are so thankful to support the alliance with the series with that support to see guest and Panel Discussions over the last couple of years including joseph rogan i believe you have the distinction to have our first repeat guest he joined us a year ago as an associate director we look forward to hearing about your new role and healthcare priorities for the Domestic Policy Council thank you for being here and we will get it started. On behalf of the alliance these are important alliances we believe strongly that wellinformed press is important to the washington dc world and the dialogue is important we really appreciate you joe willing to come and subject yourself to the questioning of this group. Senior director here. Joe and i have known each other for quite some time working in
This hearing is called to order. I want to thank you for your written testimony and prayer oral testimony and the answers to our questions. I asked that my written Opening Statement be put in the record. On to make a couple of comments about what i want to see the goal of the searing to be. Ive done this in a while but my chairman developed a statement to enhance the Economic Security of america for a more Efficient Government and the reason im pointing out today is i cant think of a hearing where that statement is more of likable. When we talk about 5g we talk about the Economic Opportunity in order to take advantage of that opportunity to avoid those Security Risks, we need more Efficient Government to step up in competing against what is becoming a friendly economic rival but adversary in the many cases on the line on the world stage in china. So, in terms of the definition of its product, im really hoping to be able to lay out a certified definition at lay out some priorities of th