Palmer Luckey

Part of that was also with Oculus.

I got addicted to the sense of purpose.

And when I was booted, I don't think that I could have just gone to something that would have been small.

Like I could have found joy in running a local restaurant or in retiring or in running a golf course or a resort.

I had become addicted to a sense of purpose and working to deter expansionist dictatorships that want to destroy democracy around the world.

Pretty easy to feel like you're making a difference.

I don't mean this in a way to make it sound like it's not impactful here.

People here understand the impact.

We have a lot of people who are very involved.

But I would say actually it's very positive in that everyone who's at Anduril is someone who believed in our mission of building advanced technology for the U.S.

and our allies that is intended to deter exactly this kind of conflict and when we get into these kinds of conflicts to win them decisively.

I've seen a lot of other companies having strife where internally you have people on all sides of the issue and what really should be done.

Is it even right to use weapons in the first place?

And everyone here, I'm not saying that there's universal political agreement on every aspect of the conflict, but everyone at least agrees on the fundamentals.

They agree that Israel is the victim in this attack.

They agree that Hamas is absolutely in the wrong.

And they agree that there are some evils in this world that can only be met or stopped with violence.

That's pretty universal.

You don't go to work for a weapons company unless you're able to align with those ideas.

For example, we're not getting people saying, oh man, really, this is just a matter of diplomacy.