For twenty years, the unwritten rule of Silicon Valley venture capital was dead simple. Software eats the world, and weapons stay far away. If you walked into a fancy incubator on Sand Hill Road pitching a social media app or a B2B SaaS tool, you got rich fast. If you pitched military drones or defense […]

For the last twenty years, the playbook for conquering Silicon Valley was a predictable script: drop out of Stanford, crank out Python scripts, live on caffeine, and wait for a Series A. We built an entire generation of founders who treated society like a massive debugging exercise, believing that if you just optimize enough code,