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

Because what you would want to do is you would want to do tit for tat.

You

decisions you would want to you know match force with force do we have the ability to amass the same kind of force non-kinetically right so all of these are super important questions that in my opinion to date have not been debated publicly and absolutely need to to be

Yeah, well, protecting, right?

So probably the main one is like the list of critical industries.

The military is included on that list.

But think about infrastructure, think about power, think about energy, think about all these things, right?

Yeah, but even now, though, on the battlefield, it's a foreign adversary impacting our military systems such that we can either not mount an offense or we can not successfully defend ourselves.

Everything that they would do, we would do too.

Exactly.

That's the way to think about it.

Let's like talk about just like our strategy as a whole.

So when we started the company, we knew we had to go really wide really quickly because to the point of like, what do other defense companies or newer founders getting wrong?

It's that addressable market question.

In every technology class in defense, there's probably one, sometimes two actual programs that if you capture them, you have a business.

And if you don't, you have no business.

Take small drones as an example.

There are very few drone programs for small drones that would create a material enough amount of revenue to actually create a real business, right?

You're basically shooting the moon.

You have to create a monopoly.

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