Katherine Boyle

That's legal.

That's not breaking any American laws.

And to me, that can be a weapon of war.

How are American investors allowed to invest in these companies?

Yeah.

So Castellan.

So it's another great story, a company I met very early in its trajectory.

But it kind of, again, explains why it's so important to meet people that you...

or to invest in people that have seen it before.

So the team was working at SpaceX.

So a lot of the team was on the government sales.

They were part of Starshield, which was selling to the government, working with government on some classified projects and different things.

This team, the founder will tell the story that every time he would talk to people inside the DoD, they would say the biggest issue for America is we have no hypersonic weapons.

Our missiles will be depleted.

I think Palmer talked about this.

If we were in a potential hot war with China, our missiles would be depleted within eight days or some crazy scenario in terms of the scenario running.

This has been top of mind for DoD for a very long time.

And the founder said he consistently talked about this inside of SpaceX, but SpaceX is maniacally focused on going to Mars.

The sorts of projects that get done at SpaceX, they have many projects and many types of things that they're building, but hypersonics was not on the menu.

And so he and a number of his colleagues