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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's flagship podcast about the business of

startups. I'm Rebecca Boulon, and this is our Wednesday episode where we home in on a trend in

the tech world and dive deep. As most of our listeners know, the equity crew was in San Francisco

for TechCrunch Disrupt last week, and what a week it was. Now, you're about to hear a conversation

I had at Disrupt with Rebecca

Gevalt. She's a managing partner at Decode Capital, and she was one of the panelists in an on-stage

discussion that I led about the boom and national interest startups. So think anything from

climate resilience tech to satellites and also on the panel was Tofer Haddad, CEO of Satellite

Imagery Startup Albedo and Kai Klepdad, CEO of satellite imagery startup Albedo,

and Kai Klepfer, CEO of Biometric Gun Startup, Biofire.

Now, you can watch that whole recorded conversation on TechCrunch.com and we'll also link to it

in the show notes. But I wanted to get some more specific insights out of Rebecca regarding

how startups can get a foot in the door of government contracts and secure some of that repeatable revenue.

So without further ado, let's listen to my chat with Rebecca Jevault.

I'm joined today by Rebecca Javel, Managing Partner at Decode Capital, and Rebecca joined me on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about the boom and national interest startups.

And actually at the end of the panel, when I asked the audience for questions, there was a massive line and everyone wanted to ask Rebecca questions.

So I thought, you know what, I'm going to write down these people's questions and we're going to address it all on the podcast and more.

So thank you, Rebecca, for joining us. Can you tell us a little bit

about, well, first of all, has it been in San Francisco? I hear you took a Waymo for the first time.

Yeah, I was actually, I was out with friends of mine who I used to work with. And we were talking about

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