ANDURIL

I got kicked out of Facebook and decided to build autonomous weapons for the Pentagon. I'm not sure which job my parents were more confused about.

The defense industry hasn't innovated in 30 years. They build the same planes slower and more expensively. We build new things fast and cheap.

We fund our own R&D. If the product doesn't work, we lose our money, not the taxpayer's. That alignment changes everything.

The lesson from Ukraine is clear: cheap autonomous systems beat expensive legacy platforms. The $500 drone is the new $50 million fighter jet.

We named the company after Aragorn's sword because it was broken and reforged. American defense innovation was broken. We're reforging it.

If you're not comfortable building weapons, don't apply. We don't pretend we're doing something else. We build tools for people who defend freedom.