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The Tech Bros Powering Silicon Valley's Military Fever Dream


Venture investors like Andreessen Horowitz are swooning over the so-called "Gundo Bros," who are building American hardware and software companies near LAX airport.

Many attendees were tracking the arrival of a group of mostly male twenty-something entrepreneurs who call themselves the “Gundo Bros.” They were posting live updates of their journey on a party bus from El Segundo, the neighborhood adjacent to LAX airport and home to major defense contractors. Led by Boyle and fellow partner David Ulevitch, the fund has pledged to invest in sectors like defense, aerospace and public safety, and has become a powerful credo for young founders hoping their creations will shape the future of war. At a local cafe frequented by El Segundo entrepreneurs, Doricko said, over three sides of bacon, that the current Gundo psyche really coalesced after Andreessen Horowitz announced its American Dynamism fund last May, to invest in new hardware and software companies that serve America’s national security interests.

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