Joshua Sushan

Building/investing at the intersection of regulation & technology

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

@alexmodon There’s an argument to be made about our workforce as well. AI literacy is important but we need to make sure we have the talent to work in our fabs. In order to win, we need energy and the critical workforce to build the chips.

[Joshua Kushner @JoshuaKushner]

if not you then who

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

@HenmackIII @GovRonDeSantis Congratulations @HenmackIII! Looking forward to working together and supporting all Florida learners!

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

Alright X, work your magic. Anyone have recommendations for Taipei? Things to do, pleases to eat, etc.. I’ll have two free days.

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

@mvanhorn As a local chapter president of the MVH purported friends, wondering when we will see you in TX

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

@Katie_Roof @BusinessInsider @politico @Telegraph Congrats!!! They’re lucky to have you!

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

@mvanhorn “Stop being the thing in the loop” Love seeing MVH cook. Excellent sir!

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

Horrible loss and a true pioneer for Austin. May his memory be a blessing.

[Austin Statesman @statesman]

Capital Factory founder Joshua Baer, a visionary force in the Texas technology and start-up ecosystem, died Tuesday night in a private plane crash in Laredo, the organization confirmed to the American-Statesman.

"Joshua was a fearless leader, a brilliant partner, and a dear friend to so many of us," Capital Factory President Bryan Chambers said.

https://t.co/rYhKmYv0Yg

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

“It is certainly hard to believe that a little company that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now going public with the largest IPO ever.”

Only in America. Congratulations to @elonmusk @SpaceX. This is the American Dream 🇺🇸💪🚀

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

History in the making

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Elon Musk is officially the world’s first trillionaire after his company, SpaceX, went public. His SpaceX stake was valued at around $690 billion at the IPO price, while his Tesla stake makes up around $279 billion of his net worth. https://t.co/IewtoHSTV0

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

Kudos to @Meta and @DinaPowellMcC for leading this. Hoping more companies follow suit.

This will help thousands of Americans in the age of AI and is exactly what workforce investments should look like.

[Dina Powell McCormick @DinaPowellMcC]

Today @Meta is proud to launch America’s Workforce Academy with our partners.

This program will provide paid training, certification and a job for Americans of all backgrounds to be part of building American leadership in the world.

Because we believe the Future is for Everyone.

https://t.co/3H6ccGL605

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

North Korea booming economy wasn’t on my 2026 hit list….suppose war helps

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

@KatieS

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

@MichelleVolz @alexmodon you two should meet

[Barrett Linburg @DallasAptGP]

Let's talk about what's going on in Texas

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

@mvanhorn @trevin @steipete Go go go brother! Killing it MVH!

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

@sarthakgh ✋

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

@KatieS Amen!

[Joshua Sushan @JoshSushan]

Read the book. It’s worth it.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On