Daniel P. Driscoll

But I think it is fair to say what Israel is facing is different.

I think the other big part of this is how do we, as an army,

the types of ideas that come out of garages.

I think if we look at the success of Silicon Valley, I think one of the questions, if I were you, I would ask me is, how are you going to take the lessons of Silicon Valley from scaling solutions really quickly and get them to soldiers

Because I think that's like one other leg of the stool that we've talked about how we actually buy.

We've talked about getting it in the hands of soldiers.

We've talked about the systems for promoting and training our soldiers.

I think the last piece of the last big leg is like, how do we actually get dollars?

Because people need dollars.

They have to go buy stuff.

They have to feed their families.

They have to like live long enough to get their idea from their head to the chalkboard, to the manufacturing floor, to the soldier, back to the manufacturing floor to scale.

And so, like, that's another kind of hard problem to solve.

I love it.

That makes me more optimistic.

What we're trying to do as an army is cradle to grave funding.

And so we spend so much money.

And one of the things we've done so pathetically is we do like a performative funding cycle where we'll

um do something like an x prize and then nothing ever comes of it when you actually see what it takes for these companies to survive and thrive it requires consistent mentorship consistent communication and every company that's scaling faces this moment or the vast majority of them of kind of an existential threat and can they get to the other side of that thing

And I think what the venture world has done so well for a lot of companies in other sectors is they've given them those tools to succeed.