David Ulevitch is a General Partner at a16z. He discusses how Google's 2018 decision to drop its Pentagon AI contract (Project Maven) prompted tech workers to build defense and national interest startups.
“You know, even in some of the origins where some of the AD companies started, it was after Google bailed out of Project Maven, and people in Silicon Valley were really trying to figure out what was important, how do I want to spend my time, and that, that, those early seeds, you know, blossomed into what now, you know, Catherine coined as the American dynamism practice”
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“And you know, we never use those terms because they, I mean, frankly, they just never made any sense. And certainly, and they also were just, Boring, stupid terms. They weren't galvanizing, that's for sure.”
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