Vice President JD Vance was the opening speaker at Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism Summit on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. You can watch it for yourself: Vance walking across the stage in a suit and red tie as a16z founders and attendees stood up and cheered. He smiled, waved, and referred to investors Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Katherine Boyle by their first names, before pledging to support the entrepreneurs in the room.
“As of a couple of months ago, you have an administration that’s working with you and facilitating your hard work instead of making it harder to innovate, which is, I think, what the last Administration did,” Vance said to the room of a16z-backed companies building companies in aerospace, defense, public safety, supply chain, and manufacturing. He later added: “We recognize now in our administration is the time to align our work interests with those of all of you. It’s time to align the interests of our technology firms with the interests of the United States of America writ large.”
