Ulevitch: Project Maven controversy sparked the American Dynamism movement
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David Ulevitch, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), explains how tech worker protests against Google's military contract inspired defense tech founders.
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“The Google Project Maven moment in 2018 in many ways as a galvanizing moment to actually wake up a lot of founders and builders and say, hey, wait a minute. I actually do want the government to have the best technology and best capabilities. I do want to build. I mean, that, you know, I would say if you fast forward, that gave rise to the American dynamism movement.”
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