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Who built what

Who built what, News & Observer – Online,  July 26, 2012. In a speech by President Obama made in Roanoke. Call it the “You didn’t build that” speech. There has been much parsing over what “that” referred to. It is true that the government created N.C. State University, and I suppose anyone could have learned what they needed at State to launch a company like SAS. But they didn’t. A couple of State alums, Jim Goodnight and John Sall, did. And became billionaires.