Two months ago, Vice President JD Vance appeared in San Francisco at the US dynamic summit, the annual event set by Andrink Horwitz capital. Members of Congress, founders of startups, investors, and public defense officials sat in the public. They gave Vans a standing applause walking on stage, while Alabama played “forty hours (for Levin)” in the background. (“Hello, work Pittsburgh Steel Miller / Let me thank you for your time / You work for forty hours in a week of Levin / only to send it down the line.”) “You love her people, the opportunities she gave to you, and you realize that building things – our us, can be a new innovation in the economy – racing down.” The scene was a snapshot to reorganize America and sometimes not intuitive between the Silicon Valley and the new right.
Over the past few years, Andrien Horwitz (often talked about in an abbreviation called “A16Z”, referring to the sixteen letters between “A” in Andressen and “Z” in Horwitz) growing a portfolio of companies that “build for the national interest”. Investments, which are divided into a category calling the American dynamic A16z, are significantly towards defense and space: there is Castelion, which develops long -range missiles that are supposed to be cheaper and more effective than traditional weapons. There is Hadrian, who builds factories that can quickly produce specialized parts of missiles, such as engine nozzles and fuselage sections. The name of the American dynamic describes this investment portfolio, but it is also a standard claim: America is good, and that building things that makes the country stronger and more good – morally and financially safe. Last April, the A16Z was set up six hundred million dollars for US dynamic investments. Companies that are often supported by building products in the material world – for example, for example, explicitly intended to benefit the United States and its allies. Almost all companies are either selling to governments or making organized products significantly. To take one example: Inves the American dynamic in Spacex, which has large federal contracts with it Nassa And the Pentagon. But he will not put money in Tesla, which sells cars primarily to consumers.
The Catherine Boyle, a A16Z general partner, who was behind the scenes watching the Fansa speech, was a A16Z general partner, who formulated the term “American dynamic” and is now overseeing the wallet with his colleague David Oliveic. Boyle is an influential technical figure who has not yet achieved the main shipping status but his name has been constantly dropped. It came in a conversation Semafor story About the chat collection in Silicon Valley; Gundo’s defense founders, a technical center near Los Angeles, were martyred by “wonderful” in interview with Vanity Fair Reporter. In the same way that the Vice President is often seen as a bridge between the worlds-SF to DC, Dodge to MagaThe technician analysis specialists of the right-wing people-Boyel is increasingly playing the role of the general translator. It is a religious Catholic in the world of secular technology often. She is a friend of the family in favor of the family, while moving on the Silicon Valley’s tendency towards the supporter who is driven by technology (attempts to invent synthetic cows that can completely free children, this type of things). She spent years in the capital as a correspondent for Washington mailAnd it brings its understanding of Washington’s culture to its work with the founders of startups. Above all, Boyle is the face of American dynamic – not as an investment preservation but as morals. “I think America is a good country in the first place,” I recently told me. “It is okay to work on things that say:“ I love this country without shame. ”The noise video clip of the last summit includes pictures of the American flag and the statue of freedom interspersed with missiles and high -tech factory assembly lines. In the background, the NASCAR race plays, where actor Kevin James shouts,“ God bless our forces. God bless America. And start your engines! “
Boyle began at its beginning as an investor in Silicon Valley about a decade ago. At that time, as I recently put it in an interview with a podcast, “the defense was seen as an issue that no one had touched. It was a low position.” Google employees I organized protest In 2018 about the company’s participation in Project Maven, an attempt to improve the army’s use of artificial intelligence in drones; The general feeling in the world of technology was that the Silicon Valley should build applications for a global market, not making war machines for the American government. Boyle saw this position as far from touch. In the podcast, she said that for a long time, the Silicon Valley was separated “from the issues that Washington is interested in.” When Palmer Lucky, the inventor of the virtual Oculus Virtual headphone, Andrill Endorriez, an independent weapons development company and surveillance systems, began an early investor, and later joined the Board of Directors. “The friends of the Silicon Valley, the colleagues and the people in other project companies were telling me, one of them, I was a fool, or worse, I was fascist,” Boyle said. (Luckey is a polarized personality: He confirms that he was expelled from Meta in 2017 because he donated a political group supporting Trump, and later designed a preliminary model of VR headphones that can theoretically kill the user in real life when they die in the Bay Bay game. I started using the term “American dynamic” to describe these types of companies. We invest in America – it has been a shocking business decision, ”Boyle told me.
In a few years, Silicon Valley underwent a cultural transformation. A decade or two decades ago, the summit of innovation was like Facebook, the social media platform. At the top of the American dynamic, Vans told a story since that time, when he was working in the Silicon Valley. He said that the famous CEO had claimed at a dinner party that the Americans whose jobs were canceled would find the meaning of their lives in “completely digital and immersive games”. “My wife sent me a text message under the table,” said These people are madly affected. ”In the following years, some of the founders of startups were attracted away from digital entertainment towards building actual and physical things. Boyle was surprised by the number of founders who told them,“ I am a building to America. I am American dynamic. “
There has always been a fear of artificial intelligence and automation Kill the functions of the working class. However, Boyle and its allies believe that these new technologies are a path to reactivating the manufacturing sector in America and creating jobs from the working class, not by restoring beforeNava-Ra Industries, but by supporting completely new sectors, such as those built around the artificial intelligence of Powell, this vision of the working class deeply linked to its pro -family policies. “When you think about returning manufacturing so that people have great functions – this is something that families care about,” she told me recently. In this spring speech at the Institute of American Institutions, the Conservative Research Tank in Washington, Boel made a stadium to a group of social conservatives that its project is supportive of the family. She said that the American dynamic movement is “not statistical.” It is “the philosophy of creation and growth to support the national interest, and this means the nation.” “There is no nation without the family.” She urged technology and investors to alliance with families: to normalize work from home, for example, especially for working mothers. She referred to an American dynamic company called Odyssey, which builds platforms to help parents benefit from educational savings accounts in their states. She said that these programs “accrue to the dollars in the tax to parents so that they can make the best decisions about teaching their children.” “Technology is the backbone of this education selection movement: from immediate verification to compliance programs to the payment layer that provides money for parents.” The goal of technological innovation should be “reshaping culture and making America supportive of the family again.”
Officially, the American dynamic is not partisan, and Boel confirmed that defense officials are democratic departments, such as former Deputy Defense Minister Kathleen Hicks, were close partners for A16Z work. “I don’t actually think it has been seen, at all, as a line to a political party,” Boyle told me. However, a number of technology mighty in its orbit – including Loki and a Boyle’s president, Mark Anderson – were explicit supporters of President Donald Trump. American dynamic ideas are deeply in line with America’s vision called by Vans, which Boyle met for the first time several years ago, when he was a partner at Mithril Capital, an adventure company headed by Peter Thil. “There were only a few people who say these things in 2016 or 2017,” Boyle told me. “One of them was.” It seems that a recent project for Vance is to persuade social conservatives that technological innovation can be in line with their vision of good. The populists, like Steve Bannon, expressed deep irony about this: “The Silicon Valley state believes the apartheid that we do not need our greatest resource, which is the American citizen,” said Bannon Ross Dothat from TimesRecently. “They prefer to import slaves primarily to work in a third of less and have a state of apartheid. Then, as soon as they can replace them with digital two, they will do so.” Vans acknowledged this opinion among the populists and social conservatives at the top of the American dynamic: “Many of them see the attribution of workers from their jobs, from their societies, from their sense of solidarity. You see the isolation of people from their feeling of goal.” Vans urged his fellow feathers to reconsider their doubts. “A great American industrial return is waiting for it,” Vans said. “We must tend to the future of artificial intelligence with optimism and hope.”
