Grimm: CEO Brian Schimpf drives global defense strategy and final company decisions
Matt Grimm · Full Anduril R&D Tour: Matt Grimm, Co-Founder & COO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Dec 17, 2025 · at 7:36
Matt Grimm, co-founder and COO of Anduril Industries, explains how co-founder and CEO Brian Schimpf strategizes defense programs and resolves internal conflicts.
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“Brian is really our, like, I would call him, like, our strategic genius, so he is the one who is looking at, if Palmer has an idea for a new product, or any of our engineers really have an idea for a new product, he's the one who kind of sees the chessboard the best on What the existing programs are, what programs the Navy or the Air Force, or what the British Army is going to want, or what the Australians are talking about, or what the Japanese military is, but he's the one who kind of sees the global chessboard of the different competing programs and competing companies in the space. There's a lot of companies who work in the defense sector, and he sort of sees where Andro plays into that and how we fit, and he plays that game extremely, extremely well. And he's obviously our CEO, so ultimately we all Report into him. And he's the big boss and decider at the end of the day when there are conflicts and things we have to resolve.”
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