Katherine Boyle

We were seeing this, but it was sort of this kind of secret.

People hadn't been talking about it publicly.

So we announced the thesis, and I've never seen such an explosion.

To me, this was...

like probably the biggest moment in my career of seeing like the number of people emailing me, retweeting it, saying like, this is where Silicon Valley is going.

And within six months, the term American dynamism had become this kind of hilarious internet meme.

It was everywhere.

People were using it as a joke.

People were using it as, hey, I'm an American dynamism company.

Investors were raising funds off of it, saying we want an American dynamism practice.

We ended up raising a very large fund to invest in the category.

And it really, like, the thing I think I'm most proud of, because it was a huge shock.

It wasn't a shock to the engineers.

It wasn't a shock to the veterans.

But it was a huge shock to the investor class when we said the word America.

No kidding.

And I had been saying American dynamism for a long time, but I said, this practice has to be named American dynamism.

And when people ask us what it is, it is a very clear meme.

We're investing in companies that are supporting the national interest, full stop.

And we're not going to be ashamed about it.