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Luckey: Defense startups cannot build multi-billion dollar scale as subcontractors
“You can't just be a subcontractor to a prime and expect to build A multi-billion dollar company.”
Luckey: Government-funded R&D prevents building cutting-edge tech
“If you're reliant on the government paying you to do work, it means you're only ever going to build things that the government and that politicians already believe are possible. And if you do that, you're never going to be able to build the things that are tru…”
Palmer Luckey: Believe customers understand problems, not solutions
“Well, yeah, I think that one of our internal mantras is always believe that the customer understands what their problem is. Never believe that the customer understands what the best solution is.”
Luckey: Government moves fast on proven tech, slow on R&D
“I guess the point is the government is very bad at funding cutting edge new R&D because you haven't proved that it will work to them yet. And they're not in the business of risking taxpayer money on crazy science fair projects. But if you show up with a real t…”
Luckey: DoD mistakenly measures innovation by deal volume instead of deployment
“And I think that that's a big problem with DOD is they, in some of these innovation related programs, they are equating the number of deals that they do with success. When in reality, they need to be measuring how many of these programs go on to be real deploy…”
Palmer Luckey: Product Quality Alone Cannot Win Defense Contracts
“You can't just win by having a good product in defense. You have to understand the legal side. You have to understand procurement. You have to understand procurement better than government procurement officers, because most of them aren't even aware of all the…”
Luckey: Hired sales reps cannot replicate the impact of a founder showing up
“Even if I have a sales guy who is better than me at selling, he'll never have quite the same impact as the founder of the company showing up. So sometimes you've got to show up because the customer wants the big man to show up.”