Marshall here. Welcome back to The Realignment.

My guest today is Dr. Megan Reese, founder and CEO of SolidIntel. A company helping businesses

de-risk their supply chains, giving the increasingly fractious state of geopolitics. SolidIntel

achieves this by leveraging the power of AI and machine learning. Before founding your company,

Megan worked in the Senate as Senator Mitt Romney's National Security Advisor and earned a

PhD at UT Austin. In this conversation, we cover everything from supply chains and the AI

opportunity to what it's like to do business in China as a medium-sized business.

All, of course, center on Megan's expertise in the national security field. In the last third

of the conversation, do something a little different. As you all know, this show is very focused

on policy and solutions. Really, do I focus on guest background? But given the fact that Megan has

gone from academia, earning her PhD, to working on the hill and now founding a tech company,

she is just like the perfect person to talk to about her career and what people in this audience

should really think about. She's learned so much over her career in the space. Now she's actually

working to implement it. So we're going to go through those three job categories, founder,

congressional staff, or an academic. Of course, a huge thank you to the Foundation for American

Innovation, supporting the work of this podcast. If you'll enjoy this conversation.

Megan Reese, welcome to The Realignment. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to see you.

Yeah, it's great to see you too. I've known you for a couple of years, and this is going to be a

fun episode because it's a combination of my national security and geopolitics, domestic

resiliency, interest with the fact that you're also the founder of a company in the technology space

so we can combine all my different podcasting interests into one. So folks have heard a little bit

about your background in the introduction. I read before we started this conversation. So

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