We hosted a Vets In Tech event at @a16z tonight — great group of veteran entrepreneurs!
My advice was simple: learn the unwritten rules of the game. Fair or not, the small things can disqualify you in the eyes of a pattern-matching VC.
(Also, no Claude-generated pitch decks.)
We talked to @christiankeil about how to win a space war.
Christian is a partner at a16z American Dynamism and formerly worked at Astranis.
"The secret is you have to achieve normal military objectives, maintain your communications lines, move wherever you want to move, deny those things to your adversaries, but you have to do it in a way that doesn't make space into this gross field of debris that nobody can use."
"Uniquely, space can be sullied as a domain. Space itself can be harmed."
"Space is fragile. If you just go and blow up a bunch of your adversary's stuff, all of those pieces of debris are swarming around you now, and all of your stuff is gonna get taken out too."
"In the ocean, you sink a boat and it goes to the bottom. You blow up a plane, it falls to the ground. But in space, even if you blow up something, all of those little individual shards stay in roughly the same orbital band around Earth."
It's easy to be pessimistic about the future, but Christian Keil (@pronounced_kyle), a partner at @a16z, talks to @asymmetricinfo about the importance of getting people excited about the changing technologies to come.
🔗 Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/v1vrgbOtT5
How can the U.S. lead in rebuilding industrial capacity? Christian Keil, a partner at a16z, believes the answer lies with American dynamism.
Check out his conversation with @asymmetricinfo: https://t.co/1j3W2DjFvX