"This company was teed up to be a monster - we had an experienced and ambitious founding team with a huge ability to line up capital,"
"How many potential opportunities will I get like that? Plus, I think this risk thing is massively overwrought. Let's say you start a company and it doesn't work out. How long will you be unemployed: hours or minutes? It's an ego risk, but not a financial risk."
"I just had to figure out my job when I showed up every day. I knew that our organization would look different every year."
Brian Schimpf left Palantir after ten years to cofound Anduril with Palmer Luckey. Anduril operates fifteen business lines producing surveillance and attack drones, autonomous fighter jets, and space sensors. Revenue sits in the low billions and employee count will reach about 7,000 by year end. Schimpf credits an experienced founding team and strong capital access for early opportunity, and characterizes entrepreneurial failure as primarily an ego risk rather than a long-term financial problem. Palantir experience provided management, strategy, and product leadership skills. Anduril emphasizes acceptance of constant change during hypergrowth and iterative, customer-embedded development.
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