Technology and Defense at Founders Fund HQ
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Technology and Defense at Founders Fund HQ
Anduril and Power Laws
When Anduril launched in 2017, it was famously met with a ton of skepticism. Some of it came from the fact that investors found defense distasteful, but a lot of it came from a lack of knowledge about the defense industry.
Competing with the five Defense Primes? Yuck. Hardware? Yuck. Selling to the government? Yuck.
What Andu
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