head of M&A/corp dev @anduriltech
Newport Beach, CA
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JUST IN: Study reveals people who drink 5+ cups of coffee per day have less body fat, more muscle, & higher testosterone.
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Great commentary from one of the most effective humans in defense
Over the last 4 years, lots of people have asked me "why Forterra" or "why do you care about the ground domain so much."
Well, we came from the infantry and despite the hype around drones/maritime, wars are still decided on the ground. It is the dirtiest, most dangerous layer of warfare where human beings have always had to be the blunting force.
So @JoshAraujo and I wrote a paper about it (yes, ex-Marines can write.)
forterra.com/why-we-build
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One-time bro just once we'll never go back to the cookie jar again bro just 5% this once promise it's all we need scout's honor.
For the latest issue of @arenamag, I argue that California's wealth tax proposition is actually a referendum on artificial intelligence.
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After Covid, it might be a challenging task to convince people that we need a worldwide elite class firmly controlling the most powerful technology in the world
Bill Gates Calls for an ‘International Organization’ to Regulate AI
“It's not the role of the industry to self-regulate or understand the whole-of-society impact that comes out of AI … The depth of understanding of AI … is too low in every entity, including the government.”
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BREAKING: The U.S. has deployed weapons into orbit, marking the Pentagon’s first public confirmation that America now has space-based weapons, DefenseScoop reports.
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said today the Space Force has “on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force against hostile adversary actions.”
The Pentagon has not disclosed what the weapons are, how many are in orbit or whether they are kinetic or non-kinetic.
Space Force doctrine says space-control operations can include disrupting or destroying adversary spacecraft, interfering with their communications and protecting U.S. satellites from attack.
Made with AI
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As @POTUS so clearly recognizes, whoever wins in Al, wins. The United States leads in Al today, and we intend to keep it that way.
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NEW: President Trump reacts to recent, concerning reports about AI and answers whether the industry should be more regulated.
"We're leading China in AI, we're the most sophisticated country in the world. And frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins."
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Poland saved Europe 343 years ago … and she is saving Europe again today
343 years ago today, on September 12, 1683, the Battle of Vienna took place.
Polish King John III Sobieski led the legendary Winged Hussars in the largest cavalry charge in history, shattering the Ottoman siege and changing the course of European history.
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When the CCP hears the US is slowing down the pace of AI and UK is preemptively banning it as well as Palantir.
Heisenberg
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The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.
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The fact that this dude went on ANDERSON COOPER to talk about how AI is going to kill us all - that’s all you need to know. This is 100% a CCP-paid op. Bookmark this.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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If enough people repost this, Scott-the-elder will get an X account.
(Yes we are both Scott. It’s confusing.)
The battlefield is distributed and denied. Payloads have to be connected without turning into a target.
Forterra communications link mission systems through an interoperable network built for coordinated action in contested environments.
Scott Philips explains the "Internet of Battlefield Things" and the network behind mission autonomy.
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Everyone watching Iran's state-run TV news program probably noticed they picked up an Anduril Dive-LD, our mass-produced attritable submarine.
This particular vehicle has been swimming in CENTCOM for months, successfully operating in support of American forces for thousands of hours. It was explicitly designed to operate in environments too dangerous for humans where capture is an expected possibility. I can't get into the details, but it provided significant value for months before capture.
Rest in peace, little buddy.
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JUST IN: El Salvador’s AI tutoring pilot in 171 public schools produced reading, math, & science results above the national average & comparable to Germany & Sweden.
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This blew up and I got like 200 DMs from people who are interested in Corp Dev roles, and a lot of the questions were very similar so thinking I should share here
Anduril M&A Playbook is epic.
Anduril acquired at least 9 companies since 2021
All absorbed into Lattice, their AI operating system.
The strategy: buy small engineering teams across every warfighting domain and wire them all into one platform.
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8/ What the job looks like when you get more senior
When people are trying to get into Corp Dev, I think they tend to imagine the job as a lot of financial modelling and diligence.
There is certainly some of that. Depending on the company it might be 5% of the job or 25% of the job. But the more senior you get, the less time you spend personally moving numbers around in Excel and the more time you spend figuring out what you should actually be doing.
I talk to something like 500 companies a year. I am obviously not trying to buy 500 companies. I’m trying to understand markets, meet interesting people, collect information, figure out what technologies matter, understand where industries are moving, and build relationships with companies that we might want to do something with eventually.
Then occasionally one of those conversations turns into something real, and my team has to actually get the deal done. This is the part of the job I really like. It is part strategy, part finance, part negotiation, part psychology, and a surprising amount of just talking to people.
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9/ The career advice I wish I had listened to
I was WAY too focused on having a logical career when I was younger.
My plan was basically: Consulting → MBA → consulting
Very sensible. Very respectable. Also completely wrong for me.
I accidentally ended up with a much weirder career. I studied international relations. I became a management consultant. I went to business school. I did corporate strategy. I worked in corporate venture capital. I did M&A. I bounced in and out of the defense industry several times despite repeatedly trying to leave it. Eventually I somehow ended up running Corp Dev at a defense technology company.
I could not possibly have planned this career when I was 22.
There is a line in The Men Who Stare at Goats that I’ve always liked about life being a river. The basic idea is that if you’re pursuing something that isn’t your destiny, you’re constantly swimming against the current. If you’re going in the right direction, the river starts carrying you. We can debate destiny, whether we are in a simulation, or whether our AI overlords from the future are helping out people in the timeline who are generally supportive of the birth of the superintelligence. Either way, there were points in my career where I was working very hard to force myself toward the thing I had decided I was supposed to want. And then there were other things that I kept getting pulled toward — technology, defense, investing, deals — despite not having some grand plan to build a career around them.
Eventually I stopped fighting it. Pay attention to the things you’re weirdly good at. Pay attention to the work that other people seem to value disproportionately when you do it. Pay attention to the subjects you keep coming back to even when they’re not part of The Plan.
Having a weird career does create problems. Recruiters like careers that can be explained in six words, and sometimes you will have to explain why your collection of experiences makes sense.
Who gives a shit.
Your objective isn’t to construct the world’s easiest LinkedIn profile.
Learn useful things. Work with really smart people. Get yourself into situations where you’re slightly uncomfortable and have to figure things out. And don’t be so committed to the career you planned at 22 that you miss the one you are accidentally really good at. I wish I had figured that out earlier.
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