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2. Startups and Venture Capital with James Cross

All Quiet on the Second Front

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Are VCs Really Committed to National Security?

I think if you're a dual use startup that's really focused on scaling on the defense side, I would actually advise be careful how much capital you raise and be careful on your valuation. And then third is like Congress probably needs to force the DoD to make a decision on this. Do you really want access to this ecosystem or not? If you do, here's what here's the bull case. Here's a billion dollars, but we Congress are going to fix your go to market approach because it sucks. It goes back to that stupid throughput slide that we were talking about earlier. Yeah, that doesn't work. So Congress needs to say we're going to reorg and you

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