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Daniel P. Driscoll

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1199 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

What we are doing at our next one coming up in October is we're partnering with Y Combinator, which is a little dated, but, I mean, they are an innovation engine for our nation.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

And we're going to do a demo day where we invite small startups to come out, and we're inviting venture capitalists, government investors.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

We're inviting the primes.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

And what we're hoping they're going to do is

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

see things in partnerships and acquisitions that they can do to spark innovation, to push them forward and push them faster, and continue to know that if they don't deliver on what they are saying they're going to do, they at least have a SEC army who is very tolerant of the idea of them not existing anymore.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

You should come.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

We can put you on a panel.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

You can be one of our judges.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

I would love it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

All right, we'll do it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

Definitely.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

But it's a $2,000 part.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

Yes.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

and it's even it's even more sinful than that and so um this came from yesterday and um we were visiting fort campbell in the 101st airborne um which i um i got to go out with him and do a workout in the morning which i can barely stand up and walk around anymore but then i got to do an air assault out of chinook which was just absolutely badass and that is those are some of the parts of this job that are so amazing and when i get out with soldiers it just revives my spirit and my soul

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

the balance of those visits and what is so fucking infuriating is you hear stories like this all the time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

And so this story, I will try to take this to a positive ending of the story, but we're going to start pretty dark.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

So the darkness is, if you think back to what we did with that ATI and the right to repair, is essentially we have stripped away our right to repair a lot of our own equipment.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

And so this was a 777.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

So one of our big kind of

The Shawn Ryan Show
#239 Dan Driscoll - U.S. Secretary of the Army

firing weapons that fires 155s.