Ben Horowitz

And here we are today.

on the dawn of a new technological revolution, the AI revolution, and are we gonna win?

And are we gonna have that influence?

And are we gonna be able to give people a shot and kind of continue to advance humanity?

And I think that's an open question right now.

And so when I think about our role in the industry, it's what can we do to help America win technologically?

And that's everything from what we invest in to how we integrate into the government and make it accessible to all the citizens and integrate with our allies and so forth.

And so it's a big mission.

It's a lot of work.

And, you know, it's why we American Dynamism and a conference and everything.

Yes, I think a lot of things go into it.

But to me, it always comes back to there's a line in the Declaration of Independence that is very well known, but also underrated, which is, we hold these truths to be self-evident.

And what does that mean?

Well, it means that these truths didn't come from us.

They're truths.

They are self-evident.

They came from a higher thing.

They came from God.

We didn't make these rules.

We didn't give you these rights.