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WHAT WE BELIEVE
The American Dynamism practice invests in founders and companies that support the national interest: aerospace, defense, public safety, education, housing, supply chain, industrials, and manufacturing. We believe that mission-driven and civic-minded founders often build companies that transcend verticals and business models in their quest to solve important national problems. These companies view the government as a customer, competitor, or key stakeholder—and the success of these companies supports the flourishing of all Americans. Dynamic companies exist in all 50 states and have a global impact.
THE MOVEMENT
American Dynamism embodies the spirit of innovation, progress, and resilience that drives the United States forward. This powerful force is exemplified by groundbreaking achievements in technology and innovation, shaping both our nation and the global landscape. It reflects the American commitment to pushing boundaries, embracing challenges, and always striving for a brighter, more prosperous future. Investing in visionary founders and teams tackling the world’s most pressing problems is essential to fueling this dynamic spirit and ensuring continued progress for generations to come.
1903
Wright Brothers Take Flight
The Wright Brothers’ first successful powered flight revolutionized transportation, paving the way for modern aviation and radically altering global communication and trade.
1942
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project developed the first atomic bomb, shifting the course of WWII and introducing the world to the power of nuclear technology.
1947
Invention of the Transistor
The transistor’s invention led to smaller, faster electronics, enabling the digital age and transforming industries from computing and communications to medicine and entertainment.
1969
The Moon Landing
Apollo 11’s moon landing showcased American technological prowess, inspiring generations and setting the stage for future space exploration and scientific advancements.
1974
Microprocessors
The invention of microprocessors reshaped modern life by revolutionizing computing and empowering the development of personal computers, smartphones, and countless other electronic devices.
1984
The Internet is Born
The internet profoundly transformed society and culture by facilitating global communication, information sharing, and commerce.
1991
Modern Lithium-ion Battery Invented
The invention of the modern Lithium-ion battery enabled portable electronics and electric vehicles, significantly impacting energy storage, transportation, and sustainability.
2007
iPhone is Announced
The iPhone transformed mobile technology with its innovative touchscreen, advanced camera, and diverse app ecosystem, redefining communication and software interaction, and inspiring numerous consumer and enterprise products.
2015
SpaceX Lands a Rocket First Stage
SpaceX’s historic rocket landing demonstrated reusable rocket technology, drastically reducing space transportation costs, and opening new opportunities in space exploration and commercial activity.
2022
Generative AI Goes Mainstream
Generative AI reshaped how we think about interacting with computers and the creative process. It also raised important—and yet unanswered—questions in areas such as law, philosophy, and the future of productivity.
Content
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Investing in Ulysses New
a16z leads Ulysses Series A
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Frontier Systems for the Physical World New
Robot learning, autonomous science, and new interfaces as instances of an emerging paradigm for physical AI
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American credulity, American dynamism
America has repeatedly secured geopolitical dominance by mobilizing capital and talent behind transformative technologies, from the atomic bomb to the internet. Artificial intelligence is the next opportunity.
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Antarctica, and the Extreme Logistics of Human Exploration
Of all the harsh environments on Earth, one stands above the rest.
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We Can (and Do) Solve Crime
How Flock is helping make America safer, one city at a time
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The SpaceX and Tesla Playbook for Hard Tech Startups
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Chandler Luzsicza, founder and CEO of Galadyne, and Turner Caldwell, cofounder and CEO of Mariana Minerals, about what they actually learned building Starship and Tesla's lithium refinery, a...
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Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure
David Ulevitch speaks with Justin Fanelli, CTO of the Navy, and John Doyle, founder and CEO at Cape, about how the Navy is transforming its approach to technology adoption, from running bootcamps for program managers to...
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Submarines and the Future of Defense Manufacturing
David Ulevitch speaks with Chris Power, founder and CEO at Hadrian, and Vice Admiral Robert Gaucher, the Pentagon's first direct reporting portfolio manager for submarines, at the opening of Hadrian's Factory Four in Che...
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The Missing Power Layer of Modern Warfare
Erin Price-Wright speaks with Adam Warmoth, founder and CEO of Chariot Defense, and Alex Miller, CTO of the U.S. Army, about the power crisis at the heart of modern military operations. As the battlefield becomes more di...
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Why Every Satellite Needs Earth | Northwood CEO on a16z
Bridgit Mendler, Co-founder and CEO of Northwood, joins a16z’s Erik Torenberg to discuss the critical but overlooked bottleneck in space: ground infrastructure. Northwood is building the systems that connect satellites b...
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Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar
In this conversation, Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, discusses his new book Mobilize, his commission in the U.S. Army, and why he believes the most important thing America can do right n...
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AI, Supply Chains, and the Future of Economic Power
Erik Torenberg sits down with Jacob Helberg to discuss AI, manufacturing, supply chains, and the new geopolitics of technology. Drawing on themes from Helberg’s book The Wires of War, they explore why hardware, industria...
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Emil Michael: Iran, Anthropic and the Future of AI at the Pentagon
This conversation with Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Michae...
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race
This conversation with Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of Palantir, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Karp discusses the role of technology in modern warfare, Silicon Valley's obligations...
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What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety’s CEO
In this episode, previously aired on Cheeky Pint, Garrett Langley describes how a stolen gun in his Atlanta neighborhood led him to build Flock Safety, now deployed in more than 6,000 cities and involved in clearing over...
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Ben Thompson: Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Limits of Private Power
In this conversation, previously aired on TBPN, John Coogan and Jordi Hays speak with Ben Thompson, founder of Stratechery, about his essay "Anthropic and Alignment" and the broader collision between AI power and state p...
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Investing in Chariot Defense
Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 0700 hours.
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Investing in Heron Power
Lots of words have been written lately (many by us!) about our failing grid, AI’s insatiable need for power, and the distressing rise in the cost of electricity delivery relative to the incredible progress that’s been ma...
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A Primer on Factory Economics for Startups
The "Factory-is-the-Product" Model in Venture-Backed Manufacturing
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WSJ x a16z: The Next 25 Years of Defense Innovation
In this episode from WSJ Invest Live, Andy Serwer speaks with Katherine Boyle, general partner at a16z, about the American Dynamism practice she helped launch four years ago. They discuss why saying "America" out loud st...
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Balaji and Dan Wang: The Engineering State vs Lawyerly State
Balaji Srinivasan speaks with Dan Wang, author of Breakneck, about China's industrial rise, America's competing strengths in software and finance, and what happens when an engineering state and a lawyerly state collide....
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Marc Andreessen: Who Runs the World’s AI?
Cisco president and CPO Jeetu Patel speaks with a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen about why AI may finally break a 50-year productivity slump—and what's at stake if America doesn't win the race. They discuss where value wil...
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Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem
a16z general partner Erik Torenberg speaks with Justin Mares, founder and CEO of Truemed. They discuss why American health outcomes are so poor compared to the rest of the developed world, how crop subsidies created a fo...
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Palmer Luckey on Hardware, Building, and the Next Frontiers of Innovation
Recorded live at our Founders Summit, a16z general partner Chris Dixon speaks with Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril and Oculus VR. They talk about what it takes to build hardware at scale, where the biggest technologica...
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Can AI Help Save Lives?
In this episode, a16z partner Kimberly Tan sits down with Michael Chime, the CEO and co-founder of AI emergency response platform Prepared, for a powerful conversation about how AI is transforming public safety — startin...
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Technology in 1776
If you had just five minutes to tell a Founding Father about the last 250 years in America, what would you say?
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From Code Search to AI Agents: Inside Sourcegraph’s Transformation with CTO Beyang Liu
Sourcegraph's CTO just revealed why 90% of his code now comes from agents—and why the Chinese models powering America's AI future should terrify Washington. While Silicon Valley obsesses over AGI apocalypse scenarios, Be...
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Everything is Computer
How smartphones became the blueprint for modern technology, shaping electric vehicles, robotics, AI, and global supply chains, and why mastering the electro-industrial stack now defines economic and geopolitical power.
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Marc Andreessen’s 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
a16z co-founder and General Partner Marc Andreessen joins an AMA-style conversation to explain why AI is the largest technology shift he has experienced, how the cost of intelligence is collapsing, and why the market sti...
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Big Ideas 2026: Physical AI and the Industrial Stack
AI is moving into the physical economy.
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The Crime Crisis In America and How Technology Fixes It
What if America tried to eliminate crime instead of just reacting to it? Not with slogans, but with staffing, technology, and strategy scaled to the problem.
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Ben Horowitz: Why Open Source AI Will Determine America’s Future
Ben Horowitz reveals why the US already lost the AI culture war to China—and it wasn't the technology that failed. While Biden's team played Manhattan Project with closed models, Chinese developers quietly captured the o...
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Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)
Palmer Luckey got fired from Meta for backing the wrong candidate—now he's the hero saving American defense, and that shift tells you everything about how fast the ground moved beneath Silicon Valley's feet. For decades,...
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Can America Win The AI Biotech Race Against China? | Lada Nuzhna & Elliot Hershberg
Two venture capitalists dissect why biotech burns billions while China runs trials in weeks—and why the next Genentech won't look anything like the last one. Elliot Hershberg reveals the "three horsemen" strangling drug...
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David Sacks: AI, Crypto, China, Dems, and SF
David Sacks, White House AI and Crypto Czar, joins Marc, Ben, and Erik to explore what's really happening inside the Trump administration's AI and crypto strategy. They expose the regulatory capture playbook being pushed...
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Why Speed, Not Size, Will Define the Next War
As global tensions rise, AI and autonomy are transforming how nations prepare for conflict.
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Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
AI isn’t just changing software, it’s causing the biggest buildout of physical infrastructure in modern history.
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Be the Navy, Not Pirates
Most great organizations start as pirates — breaking rules, defying empires, and building fortunes from the wreckage. “Move fast and break things” captured that spirit: better to be bold and decisive than slow and perfec...
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The Right to Bear Technology: America’s Other Second Amendment
This piece was originally published in The Free Press.
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Monitoring the Situation #3: Who Is Nick Land?
Zach Dell is founder and CEO of Base Power, an energy tech company that builds affordable, reliable power via home batteries.
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Can the US Beat China’s Engineering State?
From high-speed rail to electric cars to batteries to AI, it’s clear that China can operate with incredible speed at massive scale. Can the US still compete?
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Storytelling in American Dynamism: Lessons from War Stories
The strongest companies build belief through vivid, human-centered storytelling that conveys real details and lived experiences. By embracing contradictions and showing what’s truly at stake, they create narratives that inspire trust and lasting impact.
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The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
Announcing our new show, Monitoring the Situation, hosted by a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle, with guest Eddie Lazzarin, CTO of a16z crypto.
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Software finally eats services – Aaron Levie
Should the US put a price on H-1B visas, or would that block the flow of new talent? Are AI coding agents actually making teams way more productive, or is it just hype? And in the AI platform shift, will the big winners...
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Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race – NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
Nvidia’s $5 billion investment in Intel is one of the biggest surprises in semiconductors in years. Two longtime rivals are now teaming up, and the ripple effects could reshape AI, cloud, and the global chip race.
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Why America Needs Dynamic Defense Reform
Pentagon procurement has devolved into Soviet-style central planning—stifling innovation and production—and calls for bold reforms like commercial-first acquisition, portfolio buying, and startup-friendly contracting to restore speed, scale, and industrial strength.
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The Little Tech Agenda for AI
Who’s speaking up for startups in Washington, D.C.?
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How to Hire A Strong Founding Team
Recruiting is a founder’s most underestimated challenge, and success comes from mastering sourcing, process, and closing.
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The Electro-Industrial Stack Will Move the World
The electro-industrial stack is turning hardware into software driven systems and powering a new industrial era.
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Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
Do tariffs help rebuild American manufacturing or hold it back?
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H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart Heim
We’re sharing an episode from ChinaTalk that dives into one of the biggest recent reversals in U.S. tech policy.
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Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building
Genie 3 can generate fully interactive, persistent worlds from just text, in real time.
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The State of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
a16z General Partners Martin Casado and Anjney Midha join Erik Torenberg to unpack one of the most dramatic shifts in tech policy in recent memory: the move from “pause AI” to “win the AI race.”
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To Prevent the Next Pearl Harbor, America Must Invest in Drone Defenses
This summer, we twice witnessed military history unfold. Ukraine first stunned the world with Operation Spider's Web, crippling Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber fleet deep within its territory by using commercial drones...
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Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of AI, Tech, & the Global World Order
There’s been a wave of M&A deals lately - Meta and Scale, Windsurf and Google - and a lot of it points to something bigger: how regulation, capital, and innovation are colliding in 2025.
The American Dynamism 50: The Fight of the Future
50 AI companies advancing the national interest, from the last mile to low Earth orbit.
See Who's on the listMeet the American Dynamism Team
Innovation. Progress. Resiliency. Groundbreaking achievement. Our team is committed to identifying and supporting civic-minded founders ready to lead America. Tackling our biggest challenges requires courage. We find the companies who have it.
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