Energy department loans director Jonathan Silver said Solyndra's failure should not reflect on the loan programme as a whole.

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"We create companies that didn't exist before, and we create jobs that didn't exist before, " says Jonathan Silver, managing director of Core Capital Partners, a Washington, D.

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Jonathan, who is Kevin's identical twin, had to settle for a Silver Spike.

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