U.S. military

“Right now, for instance, on just drone platforms alone, more than 95% of the data that is collected is never viewed by anyone, ever.”

“Within the U.S. Military, there are literally thousands of people whose primary job is to watch drone footage and analyze it for information that is relevant to the conflict at hand or U.S. National security.”

“In reality, I think we're about a three out of 10 and the real danger comes when, you know, a great power competitor finds out before you find out that you're actually a three out of 10.”

“We've had a military where you've had large numbers of people required to operate small numbers of things. And that model doesn't scale. And when you're competing against you know, Countries that are, you know, multiple times your population, potentially soon …”

“We need dozens of new innovative companies that are going to modernize our military, and I want to point out these can't be companies that are founded by people who have already made billions of dollars running other companies.”

“44,000 white enlistees in twenty-eighteen and 25,000 in twenty-twenty-three, with the biggest drop-off coming between twenty-twenty-two and twenty-twenty-three.”

“We have the most incredible military service members. They are individuals who are incented to bring forward their best. That is definitely a different model than authoritarian states.”

“As a result, we're shooting Patriot missiles and, you know, advanced air-to-air missiles at these 100,000 dollars threats, shooting two million dollar missiles at them.”

“If we go to war with China over Taiwan or something crazy like that, like these drones could all become weapons that are used against our own soldiers.”

“The U.S. Military, I think to their credit, has programs generally pointed in this direction but those programs are operating at the scale of thousands, like single-digit thousands. So we're literally off by, like, three orders of magnitude, I would argue, rel…”

“Day to day that the US military uses commercial transport, whether it's trucking, rail, air, sea, and then any kind of contingent or disaster type of escalation, we would have to actually use more.”

“In this age of contested logistics with hypersonic missiles and cyber and space, you know, threats, our ability not just to operate abroad, but just to be able to leave our own ports and to be able to move rail and everything uncontested no longer exists. It p…”

“We've read reports that they spend well over 200 dollars a gallon at times, sometimes after 400 dollars a gallon for diesel, effectively, to get diesel into the right place at the right time.”

“One of the things that they've found over the years is if the leader is more than one standard deviation of IQ away from The followers, it's a real problem.”

“I'll just say about the kind of anti, you know, we're not gonna sell stuff to the US military and so forth. It's like, well, so here are friends of ours who are risking their lives to protect us, and we're not going to make sure they have the best, safest equi…”

“It can't, the software, the soul, someone's soul of their model, their constitution, which is not the U S constitution. Can't be dictating our command and control environment and telling generals and war fighters what to do and not do.”

“You're gonna decide that those people who are sacrificing their lives, putting their lives on the line to protect us, don't get the best technology? Like, I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. So, like, you don't have to work here if you want to do that.”