Rapid Response: Public-private opportunities, with Defense Innovation Unit's Mike Brown

Masters of Scale

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Startups, Business, Mindset, Management, Bob Safian, Entrepreneurship, Diversity & Inclusion, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Berman

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Call him the unofficial U.S. ambassador to Silicon Valley. As director of the Defense Innovation Unit within the U.S. Department of Defense, Mike Brown is tasked with bridging the gap between technology innovators and the U.S. government. Formerly CEO of Symantec, Brown knows the significant opportunity public-private partnerships can offer entrepreneurs – if structured for speed not bureaucracy – and he's been setting up new ones at a rapid clip. He also knows the intense need to keep the U.S. government on the leading edge of tech, for cost reasons and competitive ones. Brown has a keen eye on China’s tech-and-government efforts, and the potential impact on U.S. companies and U.S. national security. Bringing the best of commercial tech into the government, Brown says, isn’t just a nice to have but a need to have.

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, it's Katie Clark Gray, one of the senior writers on Masters of Scale.
0:04.6	One of my favorite parts of working on this show is discovering unconventional theories
0:10.3	of what it takes to scale.
0:12.3	And as we've seen in your reviews, this element of surprise is one of your favorite aspects
0:16.7	of the show too.
0:18.3	So with that in mind, I want to recommend a new podcast that I think you'll love.
0:22.9	It's called Rethinking and is hosted by our friend, Adam Grant.
0:27.3	You might know Adam from his work in organizational psychology, or you might recognize his name
0:32.0	as a previous Masters of Scale guest.
0:34.6	He has an incredible mind.
0:36.6	And in his new podcast, Rethinking, he interviews some of his favorite thinkers in the world,
0:41.6	like Mark Cuban, Celeste Eng, Reese Witherspoon, and Alex Arnold, about the assumptions that
0:46.7	they're challenging and the mindsets that have made them successful.
0:49.9	It's worth checking out.
0:52.0	So search for rethinking in your podcast player and give it a listen.
0:56.0	Now, on to the show.
0:58.0	Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, we need a different
1:05.2	way of doing business with the commercial world.
1:08.4	That's what DIU is all about.
1:10.2	How do we understand who the companies are that are developing those technologies, and
1:14.5	how do we have a process that makes the Department of Defense as friendly as possible for
1:18.7	those vendors?
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