In 1937, San Francisco finished the Golden Gate Bridge, initially derided as "the bridge that couldn't be built," ahead of schedule and under budget. Nearly a century later, the same city couldn't build a single public toilet without exorbidant costs and years of delay. Across America, communities face the same dysfunction: stalled factories, delayed energy projects, and crumbling infrastructure. We should be building faster and more safely than ever before. Instead, we struggle to deliver the basics. The problem: our system rewards process over results. A growing bipartisan consensus offers a chance to change that. a16z's Matt Cronin on the 5 priorities bipartisan legislation must address to get America building again: