Katherine Boyle
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 17 Feb
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And four years later, here we are, actually three weeks after we announced it Russia invaded Ukraine.
And I'd say that was the moment that sort of changed everything about investing in defense, investing in aerospace, sort of these categories where
If you're in Washington DC or if you're in other, you know, parts of the country.
That's what you think of when you hear the word technology.
But in Silicon Valley, that was not something that was that was really done at the time.
And so we say four years later, you know, here we are, I'd say every venture firm in Silicon Valley is investing in these categories.
They're not afraid of aerospace anymore.
We had some big SpaceX news yesterday, obviously, that I think people are now attuned to.
But it really, you know, when you think at the last decade of technology, investing in hardware, investing
In physical, physical goods, investing in things that support the national interest that most Americans think of when they think about critical technologies was just not in vogue in Silicon Valley.
Yeah, so I mean it it's interesting.
The the kind of way we came together was uh was my my partner David Yulevich and I were just tired of competing with each other on on investments.
You know, it was like there were very few people that were investing in aerospace, defense, public safety.
Um and after a while you just get to know each other and you're like, you know, maybe it's better to partner than to compete.
Um but yeah, Mark and Ben, you know, Mark always says, you know, he had been working with the the US government since the 90s, obviously.
Um advising
In different capacities, but also selling to the US government.
And so it was not new to him to be patriotic and to think of technology as a patriotic good.
But it was, you know, the last 15 years, I'd say, probably after the dot-com burst, all the way up until 2017, we always mark it as the moment when Google refused to work with the department, then Department of Defense, but Department of War, during Project Maven, when there was a walkout of employees saying we will not work with the US government.
Um that things changed where I think patriotic engineers said, we do want to work with the Department of War.
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