What's the Path for a Company?

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Wen: I'll share the story of how i met hadrian, which was my first investment since being at in resant wits. And it's a company that is building autom machine shops for aerospace and defense manufacturing. The origin story of that company, the founder, cris power, is this extraordinary founder who moved from australia a few years ago. He wanted to do something in manufacturing and wanted to build something new. But actually started out with he maybe the only way is to raise a small private equity fund.

We sit down with a16z General Partner Katherine Boyle to discuss investing in “American Dynamism”, why it’s so important and why now is the right time to pursue it. Katherine has a fascinating background, beginning her career as a reporter at The Washington Post before entering the VC world first at Founders Fund, then General Catalyst and now a16z. Her perspectives don’t fit neatly in any box — political, economic or otherwise — and we have a great conversation exploring them. Tune in!

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Katherine’s post on Building American Dynamism
Marc Andreessen’s It’s Time to Build
Katherine’s Substack

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