Katherine Boyle

They left in 2023 to start this company, really focused, just from day one, focused on hypersonic missiles, long-range hypersonic strike missiles.

The thing that I found so interesting about this is, again, going back to 2019 where Palmer said the M word, he said missiles in a pitch to a bunch of investors, and they freaked out.

Missiles?

you're gonna invest in missiles and hypersonic weapons and things that are kinetic.

Like, no, no, no, right?

Like that was crossing the line.

And so this was 2023 and I brought them in to the entire firm and Andreessen Horowitz sat down for this pitch.

And I just remember saying to my partner, David, I was like, you know, I didn't ask, but like, you think anyone's gonna care that we're investing in missiles?

Like really the first slide is deterrence matters.

This is such a serious team.

This is a team that knows what they're doing.

They've built things before.

They've studied under Elon.

But I'm like, do you think anyone's going to worry about the M word?

And he's like, I don't know.

We'll see.

And the beautiful pitch, it ends or whatever.

And there's people on the consumer team, the games team, all the teams.

Not everyone is American Dynamism.

And afterwards, it was sort of like silence.