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Matt Grimm

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
732 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

I think they've done a really good job. They hire a lot of people. They have a lot of employees. They have a lot of offices. They have a lot of production factories. They have a lot of folks who work there who believe a mission and a vision. And I think there's something to be taken from that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

I think they've done a really good job. They hire a lot of people. They have a lot of employees. They have a lot of offices. They have a lot of production factories. They have a lot of folks who work there who believe a mission and a vision. And I think there's something to be taken from that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

I think they have done a, I think you kind of have to bifurcate a little bit, right? Because there's a, like an ambitious AI software engineer type of mentality. And then there's a production assembly line fielding training type of mentality or different people. Yeah, they have in a certain category. And I think that's where we have some learnings to take.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

I think they have done a, I think you kind of have to bifurcate a little bit, right? Because there's a, like an ambitious AI software engineer type of mentality. And then there's a production assembly line fielding training type of mentality or different people. Yeah, they have in a certain category. And I think that's where we have some learnings to take.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

I think they have done a, I think you kind of have to bifurcate a little bit, right? Because there's a, like an ambitious AI software engineer type of mentality. And then there's a production assembly line fielding training type of mentality or different people. Yeah, they have in a certain category. And I think that's where we have some learnings to take.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

What have you not done that you wish you had done? Oh, man. My joke comment is that if I only make two mistakes before lunch, it's a good day. So it's like... There's a lot of things I would, I think a couple of things. I think taking a stronger corporate position on remote work, a frequent topic within your podcast and your world. You wish you'd said no to it?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

What have you not done that you wish you had done? Oh, man. My joke comment is that if I only make two mistakes before lunch, it's a good day. So it's like... There's a lot of things I would, I think a couple of things. I think taking a stronger corporate position on remote work, a frequent topic within your podcast and your world. You wish you'd said no to it?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

What have you not done that you wish you had done? Oh, man. My joke comment is that if I only make two mistakes before lunch, it's a good day. So it's like... There's a lot of things I would, I think a couple of things. I think taking a stronger corporate position on remote work, a frequent topic within your podcast and your world. You wish you'd said no to it?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

Wish we'd taken a more definitive negative stance, yes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

Wish we'd taken a more definitive negative stance, yes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

Wish we'd taken a more definitive negative stance, yes.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

I wouldn't say laissez-faire. No, we have a default in-office first kind of approach. But we, especially through COVID and then through kind of the spreading of people with COVID and then trying to get people back, it has been harder for us to get that kind of core group back together. I wish you'd been more definitive.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

I wouldn't say laissez-faire. No, we have a default in-office first kind of approach. But we, especially through COVID and then through kind of the spreading of people with COVID and then trying to get people back, it has been harder for us to get that kind of core group back together. I wish you'd been more definitive.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

I wouldn't say laissez-faire. No, we have a default in-office first kind of approach. But we, especially through COVID and then through kind of the spreading of people with COVID and then trying to get people back, it has been harder for us to get that kind of core group back together. I wish you'd been more definitive.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

I wish I'd been more definitive, yeah, in the earlier days of that kind of evolution. What did you do that you wish you hadn't done? Oh man, again, a lot. There's a few things I would say here. First thing is we made a, I made a conscious decision a little over a year ago, a year and a half ago, to attempt to non-linearly scale our GNA support functions.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

I wish I'd been more definitive, yeah, in the earlier days of that kind of evolution. What did you do that you wish you hadn't done? Oh man, again, a lot. There's a few things I would say here. First thing is we made a, I made a conscious decision a little over a year ago, a year and a half ago, to attempt to non-linearly scale our GNA support functions.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

I wish I'd been more definitive, yeah, in the earlier days of that kind of evolution. What did you do that you wish you hadn't done? Oh man, again, a lot. There's a few things I would say here. First thing is we made a, I made a conscious decision a little over a year ago, a year and a half ago, to attempt to non-linearly scale our GNA support functions.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

So things like our business systems team that does our internal tooling, our HR team, our people business partners kind of support their managers in their organization, our IT operations team, our facilities team. And what we were trying to achieve is we were trying to achieve a nonlinear kind of return on those types of heads. Like, can we build in automation? Can we utilize AI?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

So things like our business systems team that does our internal tooling, our HR team, our people business partners kind of support their managers in their organization, our IT operations team, our facilities team. And what we were trying to achieve is we were trying to achieve a nonlinear kind of return on those types of heads. Like, can we build in automation? Can we utilize AI?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Anduril Co-Founder on How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | What Happens Between China vs Taiwan, Israel vs Palestine, Russia vs Ukraine | How Software Changes War & Why TikTok Should Be Banned with Matt Grimm

So things like our business systems team that does our internal tooling, our HR team, our people business partners kind of support their managers in their organization, our IT operations team, our facilities team. And what we were trying to achieve is we were trying to achieve a nonlinear kind of return on those types of heads. Like, can we build in automation? Can we utilize AI?