Investing in Global Resilience with General Catalyst’s Paul Kwan and Teresa Carlson

Episode 6,   Nov 17, 2023, 05:49 PM

Host Tammy Haddad interviews General Catalyst managing director Paul Kwan and GC advisor Teresa Carlson on how to invest in global resilience. A second panel features former NSA deputy director George Barnes of Red Cell Partners, Former, Saildrone’s former Head of Defense Cameron McCord, and Anduril’s chief revenue officer Matt Steckman sharing their insights on responsible innovation and radical collaboration in defense, intelligence, and national security.

As investors around the world are racing to ride the next AI unicorn, leading Silicon Valley firm General Catalyst led the creation of the partnership between venture capital firms and Sec. Gina Raimondo and the Commerce Department to develop responsible AI guidelines for themselves and their portfolio companies. Paul Kwan and Teresa Carlson of General Catalyst walk us through their new investment thesis on building global resilience and their focus on responsible innovation and radical collaboration. In the second panel, we’ll hear from former NSA deputy director George Barnes of Red Cell Partners, Saildrone’s former Head of Defense, Cameron McCord and Anduril’s chief revenue officer Matt Steckman on how portfolio companies are using responsible AI to drive growth and innovation in defense, intelligence, and national security with comments by Sue Gordon, former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence.