Technology, Alliances, and American Leadership.
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When AI becomes the interface for everything, every tool we have, every technology we use is gonna be built on these models. And the models are not objective. They have opinions. They have strong opinions on things like history, on culture, on values, and those are very different depending where you are.
Returns is no longer just the size of a military. It's the pace of innovation in reacting to cheap software built tech that adversaries may be using whether they're a country, criminal, or terrorist group. And those technologies today are not being built by governments. They're being built by the private sector.
Products and technology travel faster than companies can. So what happens is for start up companies, usually, in the olden days, you didn't care about going international until you had a few $100,000,000 in revenue. Now these companies have to go sooner and sooner internationally.
The number one question we often get when we're visiting different countries is how do you recreate Silicon Valley locally. Right?
I don't think that's true, by by
the way. I think that's a happy talk. Technology has become more than an industry. Today, it's a source of economic growth, national security, and geopolitical influence. As AI reshapes the global economy, countries aren't just asking how to regulate it. They're asking how to build with it, adopt it, and ensure they don't fall behind. In this episode, Ben Horowitz, Anne Neuberger, Raghuragaram, and Jen Ka discuss why international partnerships matter more than ever, how technology is changing diplomacy, and what it takes to help founders build companies that can succeed on a global stage.
We are here to talk international today. Lots of things going on at the firm for a firm that used to historically be all centered in Menlo Park, and we didn't even wanna open up a San Francisco office. This is a big change for us. So Ben, why don't you take us through this announcement around our global ambition, and how all the pieces between global affairs, international go to market, LP relations on the global partnership level kind of
fit in together? Yeah, well, it really kind of starts with America, interestingly. And it's kind of been our belief, our strong belief, that drop a person into any country in the world, and they don't have the culture, and they don't have money and capital resources yet, and they just have an idea of how to make the world a better place, their best shot is in America. And that's just a very, very special thing. And so a big mission of our firm is kind of trying to preserve that special thing that is America. And that means America has to be a leader. It has to be a leader economically. It has
Anne, I'm going get you involved here. How much of your decision to join A6 and Z was motivated by this mission and also the sense of duty in helping other countries think about the adoption to AI and not wanting to get left behind in AI like Ben was alluding to?
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