Palmer Luckey

I think people have a pretty realistic view of the problem, which is that there are people in the world who want to kill large numbers of other people in the world to accomplish their religious or political or strategic aims.

That has been the positive side of this, is I think everyone in Andoril, they feel like they are at a place that is making a difference on these issues.

I can't get into the specifics of what we...

are or aren't doing as it pertains to Israel specifically, but it's kind of the same with Ukraine.

This is a company full of people who really believed in what we're doing and believed that other people out there in the world did not have a clear view.

We came here, a lot of us, including myself, because we perceived that the world's tech companies were not going to solve these problems that were of huge national importance, not just the United States, but to just democracy writ large.

One thing I would tell people is to care more about what other people think of you, which I know is a little bit counter to the usual advice.

We've gone too far as a culture in this direction of thinking about what's best for you.

Me, me, me.

What makes you happy?

You can be whatever you want to be.

I think that's actually a pretty negative message that leads to people not being impactful.

You said auditorium of a thousand people who agree with me on these things.

So maybe they already agree with that.

Maybe they really want to be impactful and they're thinking in terms of what other people will look on their work having meant rather than just what felt good to them.

One piece of advice I always give people is to be very cognizant of your weaknesses and to focus on hiring people around you who can cover those weaknesses.

There's a lot of people who want to be, I wouldn't even say Steve Jobs.

They want to be the mythological version of Steve Jobs, where he was hyper-competent in every way, and it was really his show, and he did absolutely everything, not recognizing that a key part of his success was having deputies that covered his weaknesses and did the things that he was not good at, and they were also a check on his worst impulses.

I think that people would be better served by thinking of it that way.

You have to think of yourself as a deeply flawed person and be very honest with yourselves and try to surround yourself with people who understand what those deep flaws are so that you can build a well-rounded company of people who cover each other's strengths and weaknesses.