In the tech world, patriotism is cool again.

Start-up success stories, SpaceX and Palantir helped to set the trend,

but venture capitalists are increasingly searching for the next promising space and defense names that can develop tech to sell to the government

and help fortify America on the global stage.

David Yulovich is one of them.

The founder of a cybersecurity company, he sold open Dines to Cisco.

Yulevich is a general partner at Silicon Valley heavyweight and

Driesen Horowitz. And he runs the firm's American dynamism practice.

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The mission?

Investing companies advancing US interests,

from housing and education to logistics,

public safety, national security, and space.

The world has changed and I think that there's a recognition from both

founders, startup founders, that they need to be building something that's

really something that they think is the highest and best use of their time.

And the policy makers and the decision makers in Washington and the people that run our DOD and our intelligence community and our space agency,

they all recognize that we need to have the best technology and the way you do that is

by investing in and working with startups.

He was an early investor in Defense Tech Darling Andrel Industries, leading their series B for A16Z,

and has funded a flurry of other startups.

Eulovic joins me here on the heels of A16Z's recent American dynamism summit in Washington, D.C.

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