20VC: Inside Anduril's $20BN Army Contract & Why Anduril Must Go Public | Why 99% of Drone Companies Will Die | Why There is Never an Ethical Question of How Anduril Products are Used with Matthew Steckman, President @ Anduril

Yeah. I mean, you basically can't have a defense company if you don't have a large US business. The government thinks that we can deliver some pretty major stuff now and in the future. There are very few drone programs that would create a material enough amount of revenue to actually create a real business. There are lots of VC companies I would love to buy if I had an unlimited checkbook. Is there other, like, an ethical question of, like, do we agree with sending thousands of missiles to Iran? This is twenty BC with me, Harry Stebbings and today I'm so excited for one of the most current shows we could do. We've got Matthew Stegman, president and CBO, chief business officer for Anduril. Just last week they announced a monster $20,000,000,000 contract with the US military, one of the largest ever. We could not have a more apt or pertinent guest as he takes us behind the scenes of both the contract and of Anduril. But before we dive into the show today, over 80% of Fortune Airtable combines AI with the scale of an award winning, infinitely flexible, no code system, a platform where you can see all of your data in one place and use it to make really big picture decisions. Think of it like mission control for your company. Airtable goes beyond organization and automating repetitive tasks. It lets you use your data to inform strategy, monitor progress, and take action. Every cell is capable of performing hundreds of AI powered tasks like web research or localization and using those results to inform and update hundreds or thousands of other cells and workflows in real time. Unlock the true scale of your workflows at www.airtable.com/20vcairtable, the infrastructure of innovation. And just like Airtable organizes your workflow data, Metaview organizes your conversation insights. This episode is brought to you by Metaview. Who says hiring has to be fair? Every founder, VC, and exec I speak with knows this. Your ability to hire is the biggest constraint on your company's growth. But recruiting is slow, it's subjective, and only getting more competitive. And that's why teams like Eleven Labs, Brex, Replit, Deal, and 5,000 other organizations use MetaView, the AI company giving high performance teams a real unfair advantage in hiring. MetaView's built a suite of AI agents that behave like recruiting coworkers. They proactively find candidates. They take interview notes automatically, and they help you surface the best candidates in process. For the first time, AI handles the recruiting toil and gives you a single source of truth. That means hours saved per hire and a team focused on what matters most, winning the right candidates as fast as possible. Don't let your competitors outhire you. MetaView customers close roles 30% faster. Try MetaView today and get a free month of sourcing at metaview.ai/20vc. After Metaview captures what was said, Turing helps you build with the people who can deliver after it. Frontier Labs …