Drew Oetting

How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic

Drew Oetting, Molly O'Shea

8BC formalized its 2018 shift to a dual "build and invest" model, leveraging talent from Palantir and SpaceX to co-found and scale critical physical infrastructure firms like Saronic and Resilience alongside high-value exits such as OpenGov. The firm's strategy addresses the unique capital and regulatory barriers of the reindustrialization sector by advocating for targeted financing structures and industrial policy reforms to overcome static FDA processes and high fixed costs. Concurrently, leadership projects that near-term AI productivity gains will coexist with inevitable U.S. debt growth up to $40 trillion, alongside long-term horizons including a human presence on Mars by 2050.