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Palmer Luckey: SpaceX and Palantir Were Defense's Only Recent Unicorns
“And when I looked at national security, it was a very interesting space where the only two unicorns in the last 30 years in defense, Palantir and SpaceX, were both founded by people who had just sold their company for billions of dollars.”
Palmer Luckey: Defense primes spend only 1-3% of revenue on R&D
“Like a typical defense contractor will spend between one and three percent of their revenue on IRAD. Whereas a modern tech company is going to be spending 20 to 50 to even 80% of their revenue on IRAD.”