America Builds
029: Global Resilience with Paul Kwan, Managing Director at General Catalyst
Jan 6, 2024
Paul Kwan, Managing Director at General Catalyst, leading the Global Resilience team, discusses modernizing critical societal systems like defense, intelligence, industrial, and energy. Topics include admiration for individuals choosing difficult paths, global resiliency as an approach, radical collaboration in entrepreneurship, responsible innovation in defense technology, and potential innovation centers and distributed operations.
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Quick takeaways
- Modernizing crucial societal systems through innovative approaches and collaboration with government and incumbents is key to global resiliency.
- Building category-defining defense tech companies requires diverse skill sets, strong mission understanding, and strategic capital and collaboration.
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Importance of Global Resiliency and Defense Base
The podcast episode explores the importance of global resiliency and the defense base. The guest, Paul Kwan, highlights his personal connection to the defense sector and his passion for critical infrastructure, technology, and the future of global resiliency. He emphasizes the need to modernize crucial societal systems, such as defense, industrial, and energy sectors, through innovative approaches and collaboration with the government and incumbent ecosystem, with a focus on trust and humility. The goal is to make a meaningful impact and create category-defining companies in the defense and technology space.
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