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Palmer Luckey

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Palmer Luckey Talks Tech

I think Anerol will continue to do things that from time to time will turn out to be harder than we thought.

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Palmer Luckey Talks Tech

But, you know, I just need to flip more heads than tails.

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China has an incredibly strong drone industry.

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Palmer Luckey Talks Tech

It is largely a result of state intervention.

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Palmer Luckey Talks Tech

It's largely a result of industrial policy, of supply chain investments that the government has made, and even trade deals that China has made around the world to allow for these drones to freely fly out into other marketplaces.

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Palmer Luckey Talks Tech

Yeah, China has the best drone industry in the world.

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It's not even close.

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It's definitely a weakness that the United States has.

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Palmer Luckey Talks Tech

Now, you saw recently this ban on DJI drones.

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The intention there is to try and fix that.

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You can fix these things.

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The US is capable of building drones.

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It's just we aren't capable of competing with the labor laws, emissions laws, energy prices from coal plants, et cetera, that you see in China.

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Palmer Luckey Talks Tech

So I'm hoping that this ban on DJI drones results in a strong US drone market popping up to take its place over the next

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one, two, three years.

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Andoril actually is a drone that we were showing off in Japan recently that's made with 100% Japanese parts.

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Japan is another nation that can build their own drones.

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They don't need DJI, but it's hard for that to make economic sense when China's allowed to flood the market.

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Palmer Luckey Talks Tech

Let's pivot and talk about ModRetro.

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ModRetro is actually a company I