Ben Gilbert: belief

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…In this playbook of like, I certainly don't want to say artificially manufactured threats. But if you're building a company, you have an implicit existential threat all the time as a startup before you reach cash flow profitability, which is you have to make payroll, and you have to either get profitable, raise another round of funding, or you're done. I think you're right. I think we're quickly teasing out. There are two different things here. Lockheed Martin exists to ensure the Americaness continues. As we know it today, current course and speed, as protected as it needs to be with the types of protections we need, great, we know where to get that. I have no doubt that will continue happening. Also, there will be other motivations for people to form tight knit teams and accomplish great things. Those are going to be for other threats and happen by other groups of people. I want to hear your thoughts on that. Maybe this is the place to leave it. Rather than grading this time, let's come up with the main takeaway, but I'm curious what you think. I like that a lot. It's probably a good thing that the nature of that motivation and the introduction of those threats to spur human ingenuity and creativity has moved, for now, at least mostly out of the war arena. It's probably good that it's not the threat of nuclear war that is motivating people to achieve great things.…

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