Matthew Steckman

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

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Inside Anduril's $20BN Army Contract & Why Anduril Must Go Public | Why 99% of Drone Companies Will Die | Why There is Never an Ethical Question of How Anduril Products are Used with Matthew Steckman, President @ Anduril · 23 Mar 2026 podcast

It's like everything works against you to get into the defense market.

It's like every headwind you could possibly imagine.

If you don't have a lot of perspective and knowledge about what's about to come, it's hard to think around corners and you get yourself kind of mixed up and gummed up a lot.

And so when you meet founding teams, one of the most important things in defense is some of them can be outsiders and brilliant technologists and thinkers.

It does take a lot of inside knowledge.

One of the things we got right and keep getting right is that blend of the outside-inside process.

Who can think differently and bring in sort of commercial perspective, high tech perspective, add kind of entropy into the system, and then who can really deeply represent our customers, how they think, how does that come together uniquely?

That becomes super important to having any success in the defense world.

It's multidisciplinary, right?

So the challenge becomes in defense that if you're missing any of the 12 different types of disciplines it takes to really capture a large program, you will fail.

And so one of the things that we've done is over the years, we've built up a pretty sophisticated apparatus to kind of round out these teams with all of the various skills in acquisition and budgeting and technology, mission and operational analysis, and doctrinally how these types of technologies will integrate into the

military.

I think it does.

I advise a lot of companies.

And if I noticed the founding team, at least a portion of it or a person on it hasn't kind of been there, done that.

The first thing I recommend is that they have to find someone who represents that piece of the puzzle that that's missing to their team.

Yeah.

basically two things.

It's not realizing that what they are doing already exists.

There's too much hubris in the technology market.

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