Ben Horowitz
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Which, by the way, I'm kind of mad at myself because I don't even think I articulated internally well enough because we could have raised even more money.
Next time, don't worry.
We had more money on the table.
But the way I was thinking about it is, look, America's got to rebuild its entire economy
infrastructure like right now, because we don't have enough, you know, we don't have enough rare earth minerals.
We don't have enough electricity.
We don't have enough manufacturing capacity.
We don't have, we have the wrong chips.
Like they take way too much damn power.
They were built for games.
You know, we don't have the, we don't have enough anything kind of to be in this future world and somebody's got to fund it.
And, you know, so, and clearly that's going to take a lot of money.
So,
All that is brand new.
And I would say it's like fairly overwhelming in a sense, but like it is really, really important.
Like we're pretty much out of electricity now in the United States.
Like not 12 months from now, like right now.
Yeah, and the demand for these tokens is straight vertical.
But the ability to kind of build that capacity is absolutely not vertical.
So we need new air.