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Lonsdale: Google dropping Project Maven triggered founding of Anduril and Epirus
“Maven came up and they gave it up. And then, you know, that was like the alarm bell that led to the founding of Andrel and Epros and Saronic and these big companies we were building now”
Joe Lonsdale Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 30:46 Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
McCord: 4,000 Google Employees Protested Project Maven Military AI Work
“After I left, after I rolled off the project, we had deployed it in Afghanistan, all that, 4000 people came together and they protested Google's involvement.”
Brendan McCord Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 4:24 The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Lonsdale: Google employee protests stopped Google from working on Project Maven
“This is the one that famously Google's protesters stopped it from working on, which scared a lot of us.”
Joe Lonsdale Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 6:57 From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale
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