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Microsoft's $22B Army augmented reality contract vehicle has moved to Anduril
“Who would have bet that eight years later, that Microsoft contract, that twenty-two billion dollar contract vehicle for the architecture of the Army's AR future would move over to Anduril, that we would be launching something like Eagle Eye”
Asparouhov: VCs Are Blindly Funding Defense Tech Expecting Another Anduril
“I'm a, you know, obviously mega bull on like the team at Andrewl. Cause like they have the like bench, the capability, the, you know, set of different products, suite, different programs going, like they will navigate this, but like, I don't know if there's go…”
Arnott: Anduril can build thousands of Copperhead systems yearly vs legacy 100-200
“We can also build them at thousands per year, whereas kind of right now, you may be lucky to get a 102 hundred torpedoes out of a supply chain as it exists today.”
Arnott: Submarine Hardware Is Easy, Communication and Approval Chains Are Hard
“I think everyone can build, you know, a sub, a submarine, autonomous submarine. That's not difficult. Having it survive, communicate, act, still be on a stream from a human, particularly when you're taking kinetic action. To make sure all the approvals are don…”
Love: There will not be 100 Andurils; many defense VCs will fail
“Like, to be clear, I'm not pounding the drum that, like, there's gonna be a hundred andurils. Like, I hate to break it to you. There's not. There's gonna be a lot of investors who are gonna lose their shirts. There's gonna be a lot of entrepreneurs who are gon…”
Love: Anduril has a unique acquisition machine that nobody else matches
“The acquisition machine that they are with like APP and Grimm and Babak and the team there's like, they're taking things that are cool pieces of technology and they're 10, a hundred X in that. And it's like, nobody else can do that. That is such a unique kind …”
Anduril leadership frequently warns investors about fake primary allocations
“We've been long time and real investors and they have tweeted a ton about fake allocations in their primary rounds being marketed to investors.”
Anduril targets tech-heavy, sales-poor defense startups for M&A acquisitions
“I won't say publicly on the Technology Bros podcast that we want cool technology companies to fail because they're bad at business development. But those do present interesting opportunities for us from an M&A perspective, for sure.”
Hays: Defense tech ignores high-volume munitions manufacturing
“A lot of the high profile defense tech companies like Andrew roll have been going after these sort of very sexy programs like drones and autonomous submarines. And there hasn't been a player yet that's come out and made a made an effort to rebuild the sort of …”
Hays: Anduril has built the defense industry's best DoD distribution engine
“They have built the best possible distribution engine into the DoD. Right. So if you're, Any of these 125 new defense tech companies, you can build a really great product and not necessarily like crack distribution or crack these contracts. And so a lot of tho…”
Anduril integrated its UI into the Army's SBMC in under two weeks
“Did you know that when we took over SBMC from Microsoft, that we integrated our UI and features that we've been building on Lattice in less than two weeks? Like, we literally, like, we did in two weeks what the army had been working on for years because we've …”
Langtry: Fusion power will be ideal for defense autonomous vehicles
“Fusion is going to be really great for mobility and stuff. So like autonomous vehicles, fusion powered, like an Android dive XL or something like that. Like, I think that's going to be a really great application for fusion in defensive space.”
Arnott: Over 90% of internet traffic runs on unprotected subsea cables
“80%, oh sorry, 90% plus of internet traffic. So this particular podcast would be running across subsea cables. Many nations have their gas lights under the waves. These are broadly unprotected, unwatched right now.”
Arnott: Anduril's square underwater vehicles fly faster and more stably
“The guys did the numbers and interestingly for what we're doing, it's actually faster. So given we've got the software magic to fly these things, It actually flies more stable and quicker for the application that we want.”
Iyer: Very few defense tech startups will ever reach Anduril's scale
“There's only gonna be so many andurals, right? There's only gonna be so many that can, that, that can speed and scale.”
Love: Defense tech startups should collaborate with Anduril rather than compete
“Working with Andrew as opposed to working against Andrew is, is, is the answer here.”
Hays: US will get smoked by China on drone manufacturing volume
“In a. Near peer conflict. If drones actually are an important aspect, you know, player in that, we will not be able to compete purely on an output basis. So even if we were to have a better product, say Andrel has a better product than DJI, it just purely on a…”
Coogan: Meta exec apologies to Palmer Luckey reflect genuine regret, not expediency
“I think it's, it is impressive, mostly because they didn't need to do this. Like, Palmer is not in charge of Meta. Meta is bigger than Anderl, and sure, they might want to align a little bit more with the new administration, but I do think that there's a genui…”
Hays: Anduril ranks profitability low to focus on critical product lines
“Anduril is focused on building a bunch of really critical, important product lines and profitability is maybe like number 12 on their list of priorities. So if Palmer cared about profits right now and the team more broadly cared, then I'm sure they would be ab…”
Coogan: Palmer Luckey says government won't let Anduril monopolize defense tech
“Palmer told me that directly. He said, like, the government will not allow us to be a complete monopoly.”
Anduril Building 1M Sq Ft Campus in Long Beach
“Anderl is bringing a one million square foot union built campus along with 5500 jobs to the city of Long Beach.”
Arnott: Subsurface Is the Hardest Operational Domain for Autonomy
“So underwater is the worst domain. So comms suck. There's no GPS, all the things that you rely on for an autonomous system. So we've, it is the masterclass for autonomy. So not space, not air, not surface, not land. It is subsurface. It's the most difficult ro…”
Love: Multi-product systems companies are the sweet spot for defense venture returns
“The sweet spot in my opinion is what I define as these like systems companies. And again, like, you know, and I'll use Andrew as an example here because everybody knows them, but it's like, you know, there's a clear software kind of component to what they do. …”
Power: Single-program defense startups face existential risk from continuing resolution delays
“For larger companies like Andrel, you know, they're working on 10 programs at once, so if a couple of them get delayed, it's not a huge issue. I think Dellian's out Absolutely right about like, if you're a startup and you're bidding on one and that revenue cyc…”
Stebbings: Defense AI startup Helsing is the European equivalent of Anduril
“It's funny you said there about like the Andrew of Europe, it's Helsing. And my favorite thing is when you see defense funds and you're like, no, no, I don't quite know if defense is quite the category. It's more like Andrew and Helsing.”
Washington DC now views Anduril as an established defense contractor
“People in D. C. C. S. You know, a real company, not a startup anymore. And I think that that just gives us additional leverage to go and pick up bigger and bigger contracts over time.”
Hayes: Anduril will acquire defense startups that fail at government distribution
“Andrew roll, I think benefits dramatically from a lot of this, cause there's so many smart teams that are building cool tech that just won't figure out distribution and actually getting contracts. Yeah. Anderil will acquire them and they've already proven that…”
Coogan: Anduril's Brand Design Signals Elite Overall Company Execution
“Even their brand design, even their merch is unique and powerful, and has great aesthetics, and it's just a sign that everything in that company is running really, really smoothly, really, really well.”
Coogan: Defense manufacturing boom will spawn new appliance and hardware startups
“They're not gonna be able to in-source all of that, and then there's also just gonna be the dividend of, you know, manufacturing and hard tech outside of defense. I mean, I think we talked about the impulse stove. It's like a hardware company. It's never going…”
Coogan: 'Pre-made' startup teams stacked with veteran operators have an unfair advantage
“And when I think about the teams that show up with startups, like. Yeah, like, and are all very much a premade in the sense that you have Palmer, but then you also have, like, three Palantir executives. It's like, how is that not gonna be successful? They real…”
Hays: Anduril alumni will spin out to build domestic manufacturing shops
“And the downstream effects of a company like Anderil over time having thousands and thousands of employees are that those thousands of employees experience all these small little pain points throughout different product cycles. And then they go out and say lik…”
Coogan: Correct contrarian founders must commit to their winning idea forever
“You don't want The Anderil guys being like, oh, I'm moving on to the next hot thing because I just care about doing contrarian stuff. It's like, it's okay that they've gotten, that they did the contrarian thing. They took the bet. They were correct. But now th…”
Coogan: Anduril partners with Rheinmetall to manufacture Barracuda and Fury in Europe
“Over in defense tech world Andrew has partnered with Ryan Mattall, the German the German defense tech company, the prime really to manufacture Barracuda, Barracuda and fury over there.”
Arnott: Anduril's Dive-XL can carry dozens of Copperheads and Seabed Sentries
“Within the dive XL, which is our big
Underwater submarine or autonomous submarine, I should say, we can put dozens of copperheads in.
We can put a dozen seabed sentries.”
Arnott: Anduril launches Seabed Sentry and Copperhead maritime defense systems
“Two brand new products, seabed century,
Copyhead going public today.”
Arnott: Anduril's Seabed Sentry is completely wireless and fully electric
“One of the key things I will, ah, lay out is this is a cableless system. So it's completely wireless. So all the systems, as you guys probably know, a Cold War era, you need big cable laying ships to put these, ah, systems on the sea floor, ah, almost impossib…”
Arnott: Anduril targets Seabed Sentry at energy infrastructure and defense
“No, we definitely see it as dual use, like anyone who's got energy infrastructure.”
Anduril is building an 800,000-square-foot defense manufacturing factory near Columbus
“Arsenal exists. Site selection is over. We're building a factory just south of Columbus, Ohio. The first, call it, 800,000 square feet is already kind of, you know, there and ready for us to construct into.”
Coogan: Anduril's original Anvil drone destroys targets via kinetic impact
“Well, no, no, the original anvil just has just a weight in it, and so it's purely kinetic, and this is the whole story with Polymer figuring out how to shoot down DJI drones, electronic warfare, takeover, and what he realized was that if you just run into it, …”
Hays: Anduril raised its seed round at around $97M post-money
“The Andrew Seed Round was done at like, 97 post or something like that.”
Coogan: Kevin Hartz's stealth startup Sauron builds residential defense tech
“Sauron, which is their home defense company. Anderil for your home. Palantir for your home.”
Coogan: Palmer Luckey was mining Bitcoin at age 16
“Palmer Luckey, the founder of Mod Retro and Anderle,
Was mining Bitcoin at age 16.”
Coogan: Anduril built early sensor towers with off-the-shelf gaming GPUs
“They built this sensor tower, and they were using literally, like, off-the-shelf gaming NVIDIA GPUs to run open-source, like, computer vision algorithms, like ImageNet, and so it was very much, like, hacked together from literally stuff you could buy at, like,…”