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Copy and paste from today's Forbes newsletter.
This should be an interesting rabbit hole to explore.
Going down this rabbit hole will quickly take you -- it took me two clicks and one google query: link here. This blog today -- what follows -- is worth the price of the subscription to themilliondollarway. This blog is so incredibly important (rewarding?) I may quit blogging for the day. LOL.
Before we get started. Forbes newsletter's essay today -- "Elon Musk's Perception Problem." I have trouble with that meme / supposition.
There are only four words in that meme but I question the use of the word "problem." With those four words I think one could substitute almost any "celebrity" for "Elon Musk," except perhaps Audrey Hepburn. LOL.
Now, back to the "Topline" Forbes article.
This is why this article caught my attention:
Y-Combinator:
| A new generation of startups in El Segundo, California, which has become the center of Silicon Valley’s defense tech movement, are leaning into a MAGA-fied, pro-Christian, mostly male-led vision of Silicon Valley. El Segundo’s founders, or self-identified ‘Gundo bros,’ are commanding the attention of some of the biggest venture capital outfits around.
Lux Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Point72 Ventures are among those
who have backed more than half a dozen founders from Discipulus
Ventures’ first cohort alone. They’re pouring money into seed-stage
companies Durin, which is developing autonomous drilling equipment for
the mining industry; Rune Technologies, which is building software for
military units to manage supply chains; and Vanguard Defense, which is
building a data product for electronic warfare. Now, Discipulus
has launched its own fund to back the second cohort of entrepreneurs
that it plans to host for a weeklong event in coming months, raising $6
million from investors. It’s a small fund, but one with big Y
Combinator-style ambitions that align with the Trump Administration’s
priorities. For Augustus Doricko, one of several very online
Gundo bros, this second Discipulus cohort is further evidence of a shift
away from an era of investment in consumer apps and B2B solutions
toward a new one that favors America’s national security interests and
military prowess. |
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| It’s a so-called “vibe shift” that has inspired a MAGA-fied, pro-Christian
vision of Silicon Valley tightly aligned with Elon Musk and the Trump
Administration’s goals. The billionaire venture capitalist Marc
Andreessen, for example, has backed a venture firm called New Founding,
which is building a Christian real estate enclave, and hopes to be part
of an effort to “forge new models and institutions that can shape the
direction of Western civilization.” |
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