VC

Elaine Yompian, an organizer with VC Defensa, said she is urging families to stay home, if possible, to avoid exposure.

“You need the talent base, you need the entrepreneur ecosystem, and you need the VC ecosystem,” said Alexander Quinn, senior director of economic research for JLL’s Northwest region.

It was for a Boeing VC-25 which was doing a flyby near the Speedway.

For example, in 2022, Andrew Song, an entrepreneur, co-founded Make Sunsets, a startup backed by Silicon Valley-based venture capital firms like Boost VC and Draper Associates.

The VC firm he co-founded in 2017, Craft Ventures, has funded quite a few crypto and A.I. companies, several of them under Sacks’ aegis: crypto index fund Bitwise, workplace chatbot Glue, task automator Replit, and Elon Musk’s own xAI, among others.