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We are not taking the incubator approach…we would invest on the same terms alongside the other investors and we would make sure to be a very, very small piece of the round and not to crowd out anybody.”. This is a ten year project…, we’re one and a half-years in and we have a long way to go. That is the great constant.”.
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