Theo Jaffee

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1,082 appearances 21 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

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The a16z Show · Three Startups Reinventing Critical Infrastructure · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

You know, Peter Thiel was really into this.

I think Zuckerberg was into this.

The idea being, you know, if you can't create libertarian utopia in any existing country and there's no frontier left because all the land is gone, you can build libertarian utopia in the middle of the ocean.

Or just forgetting about the libertarian valence, just like having Cuban habitation in the middle of the ocean.

So do you think this is a good idea?

Is it tractable at all?

Interesting.

So we've had a lot of incidents in the last few years of oil pipelines and internet connectivity cables being cut, you know, often as an act of deliberate sabotage.

How do you defend against these?

It seems like you just have a lot of potential attack surface and it's tough to defend.

Nice.

So you are also, in addition to being the co-founder and CEO of Ulysses, the secretary of the Hamilton Society, which is one of my favorite things in SF, actually.

I go to most or all of the Hamilton Society meetings.

For the audience, it's this debate society they meet in this church in the Richmond like once a month.

It's very formal.

You are required to wear a suit and tie.

If you're a man and you know, black tie, if you're a woman, if you are not wearing a student tie, they will just not let you in.

And it's great.

So it has this like real atmosphere of kind of professionalism and dignity and sort of old academia aesthetics.

So how did that whole thing come about?

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