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100 warps to the best and most genuine answer to what you think caused the 180-degree position flip of SV tech workers on building defense tech. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/17/silicon-valley-military-tech-defense-contractors/

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If you don’t have a Bloomberg sub: https://archive.ph/2024.02.17-193407/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/17/silicon-valley-military-tech-defense-contractors/

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https://warpcast.com/polluterofminds/0xd38487bd

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My take on this is that there was always an appetite to work and invest in defense tech but there was a stigma caused by a lack of real conflict causing some people to feel like defense tech was just an excuse to kill people. And wars in Ukraine and Russia have changed this perspective.

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It's the money. Always follow the money

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the twitter files.

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1) Real geopolitical tension among superpowers for the first time since '90. Yes we had GWOT but that is different than a genuine, credible challenge to the US global order 2) Software ate the world. The low hanging fruit is gone and hyper verticalized plays aren't that appealing 3) Seeing genuine evil in the world

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It was not an immediate 180, but a gradual process over a decade. GPC and the changing nature of war had already started turning both the DOD and NATO towards new innovative solutions that existing large primes could not provide. Successful early VC bets on these trends (e.g. Palantir, Anduril) accelerated the path.

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Success of SpaceX plus inefficiencies revealed through recent wars, COVID, immigration, etc. Opportunity for investors to diversify into "new" sectors. Software eating the world

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a16z reframing it as American dynamism

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War profiteering from conflicts in Middle East and Eastern Bloc, and potentially more patriotic sentiment with the impending ‘24 election

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FTX made VCs skittish. The U.S. government prints money and then gives most of it to the military. Easy-peasy, endless money, rest easy.

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After the Ukraine invasion it became ESG for woke SV tech workers to support defense companies

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palmer luckey + the politicization of elon + the overton window sliding back toward the middle after years of leftist ideals dominating tech culture

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Founders Fund. Palmer Luckey. A16Z. Money. Geopolitical tensions. Propaganda. Nationalism. And a belief that the U.S. needs to maintain its military dominance and role as a global hegemony.

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Higher salary & status quo

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East-West Cold(er) War arms race narrative in the information age increases a sense of nationalism, even for historically passive SV ethics.

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Defense could very well be the new internet hype and for innovators and founders, the prospects of having a defense company and have it funded, and it has the possibility to protect American ideals and interests, I mean who would not want to do it, if they had the skills, the personnel, and the money. Maybe that's why!

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