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Harrison: Conflict with China would invalidate a huge swath of US naval assets
“The problem with that is that if we get into any conflict with China, there's suddenly a huge swath of our naval assets that we don't want to put anywhere near China, Because they could just demolish it. And so it invalidate even a lot of the exquisite assets …”
Harrison: Modern Warfare Demands Mass Low-Cost Assets, Which the US Lacks
“That is modern conflict. It's like, you have to be capable of spitting out a high volume of these low cost assets to be able to engage, and we are not, we, like, we as a nation are not good at that.”
Harrison: In practical terms, the US is not top dog militarily
“In practical terms, we are not the biggest dog at the party, and so we have to acknowledge that there's some strategic changes we have to make to stay relevant.”
Harrison: McNamara's Bureaucracy Strangled America's Industrial Capacity
“Basically McNamara has strangled the golden goose that we had of industrial capacity, where he's made it so high friction to build anything, that now every single individual project Is dramatically delayed, significantly over budget.”
Harrison: Autonomy delivers higher-quality military outcomes with fewer human casualties
“And so autonomy introduces this incredible capability where we are going to do the things we have to do, whether we like it or not. We need to do those things. This way ensures that the outcome is very likely higher quality and puts significantly fewer people …”
Harrison: The combative divide between hustle culture and work-life balance is unhealthy
“Now there has become this like this combative divide where like people who work hard, think less of, you know, lazy snowflakes that don't want to work hard and people that have a healthy work life balance, look at people who are ambitious and are working and t…”
Harrison: Anduril has nailed all five core concepts from its original pitch deck
“In their first pitch deck there, if I can remember all of them, they basically had five things, and they had all these weird ways to describe things like, you know, VR for war fighters and perimeter security on a stick and all these things that were, like, the…”
Harrison: Anduril started on day one where Palantir was in year 10
“Anduril on day one got to start where Palantir was in year 10. Like, that, that level of experience and knowledge that is the kind of, like, specialty that they had and resonated with”
Harrison: Investors overlook defense supply chain opportunities chasing the next Anduril
“People are under-appreciating a lot of the, like, second and third order effects from, like, a supply chain perspective around defense, because they're so focused on, well, who's gonna be the next andurl, and it's like, you can make a lot of money investing in…”
Deglobalization and global conflict are creating real market opportunities
“Even if you abstract away from like the hype, you still feel like there is a moment in time where, you know, de-globalization is real. Increased global conflict is real. Like those things create market opportunities.”
Creators like Lenny Rachitsky and Packy McCormick built valuable media assets
“Like I think there are people like the Lenny's and the packies and folks like that, that have just really, I'm a big fan of Mario Gabrielle and the generalists, like those types of people I think have done an incredible job building a real asset.”