Palmer Luckey

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Of all the things I've criticized the government on, I think actually this is one where the Pentagon is pretty aligned.

The politicians are pretty aligned.

Everyone buys into this idea.

Oh, this one's actually pretty easy.

We decided to build Lattice, the AI core that powers all our hardware systems and a bunch of systems that other companies make now, because that was a foundational platform technology that could be reused over and over again.

Unlike, let's say, investing a billion dollars into one hardware platform where the value largely stays locked up in that hardware platform, putting a billion dollars into something that is inherently cross-applicable

It means you're basically multiplying the effect of that money.

It means I get to now use it in 20 products.

In a way, it's almost as if I spent $20 billion.

Or at least in the current incentive structure of the DoD, that's what other people would have to do to make it happen because they don't want to reuse things where they can justify doing otherwise.

Product-wise, that was an easy decision.

In terms of the things we build on top of that now and what areas we decide to go into, so how do we prioritize?

The first step is actually just, we actually don't have to make the decision, is actually the great thing.

These priorities are laid out.

The Joint Chiefs have a list of priorities, things that are of utmost importance for the United States to get better at.

This is one of the reasons we got into the rocket motor business.

It's because there's been huge consolidation.

There's only two vendors.

Neither are very good.