MongoDB is In-Q-Tel backed - so by that sensationalized metric - anyone who runs a MEAN stack is thus "CIA Backed" as well. Hilarious to see the kneejerky lack of intellectual rigor around HN these days.
Source: http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strate...
“Basically,” Thiel explains, “I thought that some of the approaches that PayPal had used to fight fraud”—which at one point posed an existential threat to PayPal—“could be extended into other contexts, like fighting terrorism.”
For contrast: Mongo Inc's Eliot Horowitz: https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/mongodb-co-creator-explains-why...
tinfoil hat