{"id":948372,"date":"2025-07-21T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948372"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:08:23","slug":"how-elon-musks-neuralink-calling-itself-small-disadvantaged-business-may-be-a-problem-for-the-brain-chip-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/21\/how-elon-musks-neuralink-calling-itself-small-disadvantaged-business-may-be-a-problem-for-the-brain-chip-company\/","title":{"rendered":"How Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink calling itself \u2018small disadvantaged business&#8217; may be a \u2018problem\u2019 for the brain chip company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s health tech startup Neuralink has labelled itself as a &#8220;small disadvantaged business.\u201d This comes shortly before a financing round valued the company at $9 billion. Despite being owned by the richest man in the world, the brain chip implant company said this in a federal filing with the US Small Business Administration (SBA) earlier this year. This designation is typically given to businesses that are at least 51% owned and controlled by certain disadvantaged individuals. The Department of Justice has previously issued fines to companies for making false claims about their Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) status, a NBC report claims, underscoring the serious nature of such declarations. However, no public record of Neuralink winning government contracts using this status has been found. Nuralink\u2019s SDB filing in April was first reported by the Substack-based news site MuskWatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s health tech startup Neuralink has labelled itself as a &#8220;small disadvantaged business.\u201d This comes shortly before a financing round valued the company at $9 billion. Despite being owned by the richest man in the world, the brain chip implant company said this in a federal filing with the US Small Business Administration (SBA) earlier this year. This designation is typically given to businesses that are at least 51% owned and controlled by certain disadvantaged individuals. The Department of Justice has previously issued fines to companies for making false claims about their Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) status, a NBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}