Matt Clifford: Pivoted Focus at EF to Defense Tech Over Market Potential
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Matt Clifford is the co-founder of talent investor Entrepreneur First (EF) and Chair of ARIA. He addresses the shift toward funding defensive technologies in venture capital.
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“One of the reasons I've, Really pivot my time within EAF to working on defensive technologies is, I think there's an amazing commercial opportunity there, but I also think it's what the world needs. We need to build the technologies that mean that the negative consequences of the technologies we build are mitigated, not by banning them, but by building great defensive defensive capabilities.”
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