Matthew Steckman

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505 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 23 Mar

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Yeah, I mean, you basically can't have a defense company if you don't have a large U.S.

business.

The government thinks that we can deliver some pretty major stuff now and in the future.

There are very few drone programs that would create a material enough amount of revenue to actually create a real business.

There are lots of VC companies I would love to buy if I had an unlimited checkbook.

Yeah, well, Trey and I were classmates, met freshman year, played Ultimate Frisbee together.

So we went on a lot of road trips with one another.

I don't think Trey has changed at all.

You ever seen the movie Hot Tub Time Machine?

Yeah, great movie.

Yeah, there's a line in it that's like, every group of friends has an asshole, but Trey is our asshole.

Yeah, that's Trey in a nutshell.

It's crazy how that works.

There's kind of some magic in the fact that it's the same leadership team today as it was when we started the company.

That implies a whole lot of things.

I think mainly it's that we're all friends.

So I think that's actually pretty critical.

There's a bond there that basically can't be separated by business or stress or life.

We all know each other really well.

But then on top of that, we all come at the industry from really different backgrounds and lenses, especially in defense, which is

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