Episode · The Ben & Marc Show · 2025-09-29

Books mentioned on China Has Mass. Can America Catch Up?

1 book · With Brian Schimpf, Chris Power · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Ben, Marc, and Erik Torenberg are joined by Brian Schimpf, Cofounder & CEO of Anduril, and Chris Power, Founder & CEO of Hadrian. Together, they dig into America’s defense production gap: why the U.

Ben Horowitz discussed Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Freedom's Forge

   Arthur Herman · at 16:22 · mentioned 2 times

   Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman is a historical account of American industrial mobilization during World War II, detailing how industrialists rapidly retooled commercial manufacturing to build the Allied war machine.

   Discussed

   “So a question, you guys alluded to this, but you know, there's this famous book Freedoms Forge, you know, talking about the ramp up of US industrial production during World War II”

   Ben Horowitz China Has Mass. Can America Catch Up? 2025-09-29 Listen at 16:22

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