Why Booz Allen is Partnering With One of the World's Most Important VC Firms
About this episode
The episode discusses the partnership between Booz Allen and Andreessen Horowitz and its implications for national security and technology integration in government.
What happens when one of the defense industry's leading technology integrators partners with one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture firms? Bryce Pippert of Booz Allen and Matt Cronin of Andreessen Horowitz join Ryan to unpack their new partnership and discuss how the United States is trying to tap into the tech ecosystem. The conversation gets into venture capital's growing role in national security, how this partnership is supposed to work in practice, and why getting real technology into government hands is still harder than it should be.
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