Katherine Boyle

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5,126 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 17 Feb

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The a16z Show · Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It) · 19 Nov 2025 podcast

leaving the Andorils and the SpaceX's and the extra you know, they they've sort of graduated with the blessing of of of their of their teams and they're building things that are that are novel in the physical world.

taking the the methodology of how they learn manufacturing from SpaceX or taking the manufacturing methodologies they learned um or pioneered at Andoral and and and, you know, and and doing them in in different ways, doing them for different things, sometimes not even in defense.

I mean, I love pointing out

Um another energy company that we invested in base power.

Um, you know, the the the founder, CTO of of that company w led at manufacturing at at Andril for years.

And so it's they they learn they learn the process uh or build the process in-house in in one area, in one sector, and then they move to something that's that's that's adjacent, but not necessarily the same.

And so I think defense is really benefiting from just years of people learning from the school of Elon Musk and then building these new companies for very kind of, I would say, specific use cases.

Um, and they're finally sort of awake and saying, Hey, we will, we will write you a contract.

So I think it's only gonna get better.

I keep saying, I mean, yes, we're early stage, but um and and very optimistic.

I think there's never been a better time to start a defense company.

I just think I think that the the floodgates are opening and we're gonna just

to see just a a incredible pace of innovation um with startups that are starting today.

Yeah.

I mean I do think that the legacy of SpaceX, yes, everything they've built and done is important, but the the manufacturing processes that people have learned at SpaceX is going to be carrying America forward for generations.

Uh when you think how tens of thousands of people of engineers have left SpaceX and gone on to other companies and pioneered new ways of building.

And the manufacturing process in particular is is what was novel and different.

The factory is the product of how how Elon built across Tesla and SpaceX.

So I think the the in some ways it it can't be overstated just how important um that company is for a number of different domains.

Well, we always say SpaceX and Palantir walk so that everyone else could run and I would I i i it's maybe unfair to say that they walked, but both of them had to sue the government.

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