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Palmer Luckey on Elon Musk and John Carmack, selling Oculus for $2B and starting defense tech company Anduril
The Aarthi and Sriram Show
How Do You Build a Successful Defense Startup?
A lot of defense companies are started by irrational people. Andro probably is a better government relations team, government strategy team and kind of customer relationship than almost any defense company in the world. We're something like 80 to 85% engineers and then sales and government relations and facilities. But in the early days, we were heavily investing in that. It was me and then also Joe Chen, one of the product leads at Oculus. A lot of people we hired were basically engineers from Palantir and engineers from Oculus.
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