DEFENSE

The most important rule of trading is: play great defense, not great offense. Every day I assume every position I have is wrong.

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.

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.

Our software helps find terrorists. If you have a problem with that, you have a problem with national security.

Democracies need to be able to out-analyze their adversaries. If we don't build these tools, someone with fewer ethical constraints will.