Alphabet-backed SIP raises $400 million to remake America’s infrastructure

As the U.S. hunkered in lockdown mode in mid-April, the influential venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published a viral essay titled “Time to Build.” The essay decried the complacency of Western democracies prior to the COVID crisis, and called for a mass rebuilding of physical and social infrastructure. It’s time, Andreessen said, to start over with everything: Roads, housing, education, the health system, the works.