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This Week in Startups · November 10, 2025 · 70m
Defense Tech and the Future of Founders Fund
Delian Asparouhov on Founders Fund's thesis: the best returns come from investing in technologies that seem controversial or impossible. Defense tech and space are the current frontier.
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Canon
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Asparouhov argues that outsized investment returns correlate with the courage required to make the investment. Technologies that scare most investors offer the highest potential returns.
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Asparouhov traces how the most transformative consumer technologies (GPS, internet, microwave ovens) originated as military projects, using these biographies to justify defense tech investing.
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