Katherine Boyle

We also don't have to be beholden to an activist class.

We have free speech now.

We can say what we want on X. We're not going to get in trouble if you get reported to HR if you say the wrong name of someone or wrong word.

And I think that was happening at the same time, sort of the backlash against all of the wokeism and sort of, you know, rigid orthodoxy of how you have to act.

And that kind of opened up the way for American dynamism.

Because I really think that the companies that are building these hard things in the physical world, like, they just want to put their head down and build.

They don't want to talk politics.

You know, they don't want to know who you voted for.

They really just want to build hard things, and they care about the country.

And it's like they care about the mission they are working on.

Yeah.

Yes.

It's a lot longer.

I mean, for someone, so I can say like, you know, there were a handful of us, you've had Joe on, you've had Palmer on, you've had people on who, you know, Shyam at Palantir, like, right, there's a handful of people who I think have been sort of saying the same things over and over and over again about like, it is okay to build for government, it's okay.

My own experience of where I saw just a huge change is I was having lots of conversations with Marc Andreessen, who's the founder of our firm, about a lot of the issues that were happening in Silicon Valley.

And I told him, I said, I think that this category of investment

is not just, you know, it's not just one-off companies.

It's not just going to be SpaceX and Anduril, but there's going to be an explosion of these companies.

And this was during COVID.

So I wrote this memo for him.