Salim Ismail

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Palmer Luckey: Autonomous Weapons Are Ancient and Why Anduril…

• Why Has Anduril Been Successful?

  Palmer Luckey says Anduril has been successful because the company is less of a contractor and more of a product company. Anduril uses its own money to build products, then sells them.

  Salim Ismail asks how Palmer Luckey navigates the Pentagon, which Salim Ismail calls the most centralized entity in the history of humanity, when people inside it try to suck Anduril in or spit it out. Early potential investors told Palmer Luckey they believed he could build things that work and products that are great, but they did not believe the government was capable of purchasing them at scale. Until just a few years ago, about 80 percent of major defense acquisition programs went to five companies. Peop

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