Katherine Boyle

And it's like, I care a lot about my country.

That's why I'm doing it.

And I think there's a business opportunity here, right?

It's not just, oh, I'm a patriotic capitalist and I'm throwing money away.

Like, I think this is the biggest business opportunity of our time.

And it's sitting right in front of my face and no one's looking at it.

And so I'm going to invest in it.

And I'm going to be the first call of these people who want to work here.

A lot has changed.

And I think it was multiple things changing at the same time.

So the first thing that changed is Silicon Valley likes winners.

We're very memetic.

It's like VCs will feel very strongly about, oh, I don't want to work with a defense company in 2017.

And those same VCs will be begging to get in a round.

three or four years later.

So things move very fast in Silicon Valley.

People will completely update their knowledge.

And so what I think happened is SpaceX became an extraordinary company.

Palantir went public.

And people started realizing, oh, there are examples of companies that have just really taken off