Palmer Luckey

Beating them is something I can feel good about in the morning.

Beating competent players, not so much.

There are people who are not looking at it that way.

I think there's been some defense startups where they are getting into the really crowded areas of the market.

Or worse, they're working on things that they think are important, but the Pentagon disagrees.

I won't name any names specifically, but I'd say like the entire category of defense startups building things that are for door kickers to better clear buildings.

Yes, there is a need for door kickers to clear buildings, but the Pentagon doesn't see that as their biggest problem.

They don't even see it as on the list of their top 50 biggest problem.

They feel like we got really good at that.

We have the tools.

We have the tactics.

We're the best in the world at clearing buildings with door kicking soldiers.

And we don't need to get marginally better at that.

Same thing with Congress.

Congress does not have an appetite to spend a lot of taxpayer money getting slightly better at something that they believe is irrelevant to a fight in the Pacific, that is irrelevant to a great power conflict with China across long ranges.

And so I've seen people who say, I'm a Navy SEAL, and I know that we can do way better at this.

The other people out there aren't making great stuff, and I know that this could be a powerful technology.

ideologically, I am aligned with them.

I think that they're right.

We could be building much better things for that group of people.