DEFENSE

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The best way to support your country is to make sure it has the best technology. If talented people refuse to work on defense, we end up with a military that's a decade behind.

The Pentagon is our customer. The US Army, Air Force, and intelligence community all use Scale to process data. National security runs on good data. We provide it.

The future of air combat is unmanned. Not because humans are bad pilots, but because AI can make decisions in microseconds that humans cannot.

The ethical debate about autonomous weapons is important. But the adversary is building them. The question is not whether they exist — it is who builds them first.

The US defense industrial base is a national security vulnerability. We cannot depend on aging machine shops to build the next generation of weapons systems.

The machine shops that make parts for fighter jets are run by 70-year-olds who are about to retire. When they close, that capability disappears. We are the replacement.

We built a drone that flies itself through a forest without hitting a tree. Then we realized the military pays a lot more than consumers for that capability.

The US Air Force is paying us to develop hypersonic drones. The military funds the R&D. Commercial passengers get the benefit. That is the playbook.

DJI is Chinese. We are American. As the US government bans Chinese drones we are the only domestic option with autonomous AI flight.

The CFPB wants to classify us as a lender. We're not lending. We're helping people avoid overdraft fees.

Defense tech is not about war. It's about making sure we don't have to fight one.

The US Air Force trusts us with their AI. That's a reference check you can't buy.

715,000 documents were stolen. The story they tell is incomplete and misleading.

I built my businesses through hard work and entrepreneurship, like any other businessperson.

I am a victim of political persecution. The new government wants to destroy anyone connected to the previous administration.

If you’re not willing to build technology that protects people, someone else will — and they might not share your values.

The Pentagon spends $800 billion a year and most of it goes to five companies using 1990s technology. That’s the opportunity.

The best defense technology should make wars shorter and less deadly. That’s not a contradiction — it’s a design requirement.

The defense contract isn't a side project. Military applications push our technology harder and faster than commercial ever could.

I have not stolen a single rupee. This is a business failure, not a fraud.