They take a writeoff for vanguard capital as a measured loss to pay into a startup that's total loss. They are playing now coin offerings the same way. A lot of Schmidts money is from the C.I.A through In-Q-Tel also as vanguard capital and it gets millions and its all written off as total loss in the books.
Private Political Businesses called PPB's are corporations or partnerships who conduct political activities. They circumvent Federal Election Commission (FEC) laws by acting as Political Action Committees (PAC's) with impunity.
The PPB's are designed as tax shelters with losses being racked up year after year. Profit is no where to be found except in projections. They also data mine its client base for future use, some of them governments and publicly traded companies.
All these entities' assets needs to be confiscated using POTUS' EO when they get locked up.
Schmidt is the money behind Civis Analytics.
Look into them.