America is uniquely the best place in the world for a person with just a good idea for making the world better — even without existing culture, money, or capital resources — to succeed, and a core mission of the firm is preserving that special quality by helping America remain a leader economically, culturally, militarily, and technologically.

1:10and we didn't even want to open up a San Francisco office. This is a big change for us. So Ben, why don't you take us through uh this announcement around our global ambition and how all the pieces between global affairs, international go to market, LP relations on the global partnership level kind of fit in together. >> Yeah. Yeah. Well, it really kind of starts with um America, interestingly.

1:30Uh and you know, it's kind of been our belief, our our strong belief that you know, if you're drop a person into any country in the world and they don't have the culture and they don't have uh money and capital resources yet, and they just have an idea of how to make the world a better place, um their best shot is in America. And um that's just a very very

1:57special thing. And so a big mission of our firm is kind of trying to preserve that that special thing that is America. And that means America has to be a leader. It has to be a leader uh economically. It has to be a leader culturally. It has to be a leader militarily. Um and to do that we have to be a leader technologically. We have to be a tech leader. And that's kind of

2:22really our role in the ecosystem and in the world is to help America be a leader. And then uh what we realized as kind of we've gotten further along with this mission is that we need to kind of bring in our partners, our allies into that mission. Uh and it kind of started uh with uh the work that you're doing Jen with uh just people from around the

2:47world wanting to kind of participate in the uh kind of US technological opportunity and that kind of meant you know we started getting investors from around the world. Uh and as we went out to see those investors and we said you know look how can we be a better partner um we found some interesting things. So one is every country wants to not only kind of economically benefit from the

3:15technology but they'd like to actually directly benefit from the technology. Can you bring it to us? Can we get a chance to use it? Um and then at a kind of higher level uh you know at at the kind of government policy level people wanted to know well how can we be a great country for adopting technology for innovating like uh you guys are and for kind of helping push our country