Brandon Tseng

It was going to be the Internet, sustainable energy and space.

Right.

And so you have

Tesla for sustainable energy, SpaceX for space travel.

You have XAI, you had PayPal for, he didn't have XAI at the time, but he had PayPal for the internet.

And I was like, what problems is he not working on that are like actually really important for the future of humanity?

And I think warfare is like one of those like massive unsolved problems in human history.

And so it's like, wow, is there, you know,

Could work on solving, you know, call it the problem of warfare was something that I was interested in also.

One of like deterrence, right?

Like, and if you look at why countries go to war, like why they don't go to war.

Um, cause there are a lot of countries have grievances with each other, but they choose not to fight it.

Right.

It's expensive.

It's costly.

And if you look at how America has built this world order, um, it's like, it's because of our military leadership since 1945.

Um, right.

For the past 80 years, there's been more global prosperity in the world because there's been more global stability in the world.

That has been because of the power projection of the US military.

Nuclear weapons deter nuclear war.