Morgan Mahlock's investing is shaped by growing up in a Marine family, which drew her to work at the intersection of national security and technology, and by a background that mixes product design and engineering with early jobs at Sikorsky, Lockheed Martin, and the NFL; at Cerberus she looks at investments by first mapping out important systems like energy grids, subsea cables, and quantum computing, then tracing where the real value sits inside them. She also holds the specific view that the most widely used privacy tools will be simple, developer-focused, and possibly open source, and beyond investing she has helped build the venture community itself—leading cybersecurity efforts at EVCA, designing its first logo, and supporting causes like BLCK VC while writing about how content shapes culture.