Patrick O'Shaughnessy

And on another, you have democratic versus very non-democratic.

Muskets on one end, everyone has the same amount of power.

And on nuclear weapons on the other, one person has a gazillion times as much as the musket guy or something.

Is that a good way to think about where we might plot through history and weapons technologies or some other way that you would approach thinking about an era and weapons technology?

How would you describe what is important for America?

Through as many lenses as you want to take it, it just seems like such an interesting time where we were the world police force for so long, and that maybe seems to be waning.

We still seem like we can project power more than anybody else by a lot.

But what matters in your estimation?

What are the dimensions or the variables that matter most for America and its interests today from the defense perspective?

If you think about the capital allocation or resource allocation, I'll call it at Anduril.

I saw a joke on Twitter the other day that people need to understand that Anduril for X is just going to be Anduril.

You started with one thing and now you're doing many things.

And you said earlier that problems, listen to problems, but not to then come up with your own solutions.

How do you prosecute that?

How do you know which problems to prioritize and tackle first?

When you started the business, tackle next when you're thinking about it today.

What's your framework for deciding on how to allocate resource?

Make the world a different place.

So you built Lattice.

Now the world is catching up.