Luckey: Disruption of defense cost-plus contracting requires massive scale
Palmer Luckey · Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale · Jul 5, 2021 · at 11:45
Palmer Luckey explains why defense technology companies cannot succeed in transforming military procurement as small lifestyle businesses.
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“Like you might build some fun gizmos and gadgets, you might get some things out there, but you're not going to be able to destroy the defense industrial complex and shift everybody from cost plus contracting models to product models where you actually are accountable for your success unless you get to a large enough scale.”
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