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NEW on @WeThe_Builders, Ep.10 with @ColinGreenspon just dropped. He is the co-founder of @NaryaVC, a venture capital fund he cofounded with Vice President JD Vance and Falon Donohue (also cofounder of @reindsummit). Before Narya, Colin was on the investment team at Mithril Capital, working alongside Peter Thiel. As a technologist if you go over the Twitter/X timeline, it will be hard to miss hype videos of hardtech companies announcing their new funding rounds or showcasing early prototypes of their product. You would see photos of founders in a giant warehouse with the American flag hanging at the back, this represents a crop of builders and entrepreneurs who are re-shoring manufacturing, building defense-tech (war-tech? Navier Boat, Epirus etc) or going for moonshots like humanoid robots (Figure AI), manufacturing in space (Varda Space, Outpost Space) and so on. In 2022, I clearly remember hardware was still an outlier category very few VCs invested in, fast forward to 2024, 38% of total funding raised by venture funds had a hardware thesis according to SVB's frontier tech report. There has definitely been a shift. 2023, the “American Dynamism” micro-cultural movement was born as a16z launched their new fund with a focus on critical technologies. This also coincided with the e/acc micro-cultural movement many might remember which represented technology acclerationists, technologists on Twitter/X including Marc Andreessen had e/acc as postfix in their names. Narya had this thesis in 2019. Four years before it went mainstream on at least the X timeline, before more funds flocked into the space and raised dollars against the thesis, back then it was truly contrarian to go actively look for founders outside Silicon Valley or founders working on critical problems outside of the Silicon Valley flavor of the year. Majority of the capital was still being deployed into SaaS, then crypto and now its AI (to be fair it still is, according to Carta's pre-seed funding report only 19% of funding went into frontier tech in 2024). Narya invested in Rumble with a thesis around free-speech before Twitter was acquired by Elon, they invested in Atomic, an advanced manufacturing startup out of Detroit and started the movement on Reindustrializing America and continue to develop theses 3-5 years before they go mainstream. Colin explains in our conversation how Narya continues to come up with a contrarian thesis and stay away from technology hype cycles (including AI), what he learned working at Mithril which has produced an incredible talent mafia of its own with former employees now in leadership roles at 8VC, Linux Foundation, DARPA and so on including the Vice President of the United States of America. Colin has never really sat down for a long form conversation like this. This was one of my favorite episodes, hope you enjoy the show as much as I did recording it! Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:44 – What Narya VC does 03:57 – Working with Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Falon Donahue 09:35 – Why are harder problems solved away from SF 13:24 – The Mithril “Mafia” and getting into Venture 20:26 – The origin story and the Ohio thesis 27:01 – Why Reindustrialization Matters 31:45 – Narya’s core investment theses 39:10 – Narya’s investments 43:48 – Co-creating Reindustrialize 51:25 – Evaluating founders 57:41 – Why Betting on America’s Industrial Future Was the Contrarian Move 1:03:41 – Contrarian frameworks at Mithril 1:09:08 – How Colin Spends His Time 1:25:41 – Partnering With Scientific Investors 1:36:32 – Advice to Young Builders 1:52:57 – Lessons from Mithril alumni