Shanley

So one thing I often say is like you might be looking at like 15 different startups and that's all the same thing.

Yeah.

You're even looking at five different VC firms.

That is all the same thing.

It is a cartel that has a central financial backbone that is generating companies at an incredible speed with incredible efficiency.

They are machines for technology.

turning out these startups, which they're then able to orchestrate to work together.

And that becomes just a profound force and a very efficient force in changing the world, in interacting with the world, and as we increasingly see, you know, impacting geopolitics.

Yeah, absolutely.

So, you know, venture capital, essentially what it does, it takes in capital from around the world.

And one of the interesting things about venture capital is like, we do not have a lot of visibility into where their money is coming from.

We know some things about them, but we do not get a list of like, here's everyone who's giving us money.

So we have all this money coming in.

And then on the outside of that, weapons companies are coming out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And crypto companies are coming out and, you know, drone companies coming out.

Nuclear energy companies are coming out.

So you sort of have this like it's almost like a black box where unknown money goes in and then all of this shit comes out the other side.

And that becomes really scary when you start to look at things like we know that Israel is funding many venture capital firms, right?