America Builds

Exploring the importance of street smarts and persistence in entrepreneurship, supporting young scientists for high-impact innovations, navigating investments and personal life in venture capital, and guiding children through diverse perspectives and ethical values.

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.

Even Rogers, CEO and Co-Founder of True Anomaly, discusses the concept of true anomaly in space, building solutions for the Space Force, infrastructure for space security and deterrence, the importance of the space domain in warfare, cyber attacks on satellite systems, and the founders' college experiences.

David Ulevitch is an entrepreneur and investor. As a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he leads the firm’s American Dynamism practice, which focuses on investing in companies advancing American interests.

Nick Sinai is a Senior Advisor at Insight Partners, Adjunct & Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and author of Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team.

Paul Arcangeli, a national security expert with over three decades of public sector defense experience, discusses the accuracy of bomb disposal scenes in 'Hurt Locker', ongoing efforts to search for soldiers MIA, the role of lobbyists in government, earmarks and lobbying, and the difference between NDAA and Defense Appropriations. He also explores lobbying for technology funding and the importance of knowledge and understanding in securing government support.

Daniel Gwak is the Managing Partner of Point72 Private Investments, the institutional private investing business of Point72 Asset Management. He oversees Point72 Ventures’ Defense Tech and Growth investment teams.

Dan Brahmy is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cyabra, a social threat intelligence company.

Dr. Carl McCants is the special assistant to the DARPA director for microelectronics policy. He serves as DARPA’s top advisor on the agency’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative and the National Network for Microelectronics Research and Development, among other key investments in microelectronics for national security.

Matthew Gialich is the co-founder and CEO of Astroforge, an asteroid mining company.