Thank you Pepper Potts (I mean, @gwynethpaltrow) for your curiosity about @anduriltech and your willingness to explore complex but important topics. Thoroughly enjoyed the conversation!
Link to the episode in š§µš
CPQ is one of those enterprise categories everyone complains about and almost no one wants to rebuild.
Thatās why @RoadrunnerAI stood out.
@Joubinmir, @ajnatarajan, and @eshao18 are rebuilding CPQ from first principles, starting with an AI-native deal desk and aiming at revenue infrastructure for the enterprise.
@foundersfund is excited to lead the Series A and partner with our friends at Kleiner Perkins.
(also, why didn't anyone tell me my collar was popped up when I recorded this? Haha)
We need to make sure that the next century of American power is determined by Washington and Silicon Valley, not Shenzhen. The problem right now is that tech and the government still don't know how to work together.
For @TheFP, I detailed a possible future that avoids the tyranny of unelected technologists and the broken bureaucracy of government. š§µ
thefp.com/p/trae-stephens-siā¦
Andurilās @traestephens: "You can only be a pacifist when you're in a country that will protect you from your enemies, as a pacifist."
"If we don't have any expectation that American companies are going to help America, you're putting us in a position where our adversaries are going to be running way far out in front of us, which is putting us in a fractured and fragile geopolitical environment."
The Hill & Valley Forum 2026
@HillValleyForum@anduriltech
In the bible God makes it very clear women are not to be leaders of the church, of the flock; this is why. Most want to hear 2 women talk about the future defense of America about as much as they do listening to 2 heterosexual male biker types rating make-up products.
Production is Deterrence. The Factory is the Weapon.
Anduril Co-Founder @traestephens addresses why we must rebuild the arsenal. Read his op-ed: "No Solvency, No Security." in @AmericanAffrs today.
kamikaze round is the startup version of winning the salary negotiation but losing the job. the number looks great until you have to justify it in two years
Gwyneth Paltrow just invited Anduril cofounder @traestephens onto the Goop podcast ā and, in a wide-ranging conversation about love, war, God, and Gwynethās leftist husband who thinks sheās ābecoming a Republicanā⦠Trae explains Andurilās core goal: to engineer lasting peace.
America, Trae explains, needs AI-assisted weapons that can execute missions without endangering American lives.
Sometimes conflict is necessary. Gwyneth gets it.
Full breakdown from @harrissockel š
True justice demands that we hold two moral truths at once:
1ļøā£ 'Stand for the dignity and rights of the both the Hebrew-Jewish/Arab- Palestinian Peoples.' The catastrophic suffering and loss of civilian life is a humanitarian crisis that demands our collective voice, advocacy, and aid.
2ļøā£ 'Fiercely reject the poison of both racism against arabs and or hebrews as a concillar act against anti(shem)itism' Critiquing the actions of any secular nation-state must never curdle into hatred against indigeneous or any ancient ethnic peoples. We cannot fight oppression by embracing ethnic supremacy, bigotry or racism.
As responsible citizens, letās refuse the polarizing all too often reoccurring traps of our era. Protect your neighbors of all faiths, reject ethnic hatred, and demand an immediate end to the bloodshed. šļø #teamhumanity
Factory to foxhole.
Mud to Moon.
Palantir is the Operating System of Reindustrialization.
Join us in Detroit @reindsummit to see how Palantir is giving American workers and warfighters an unfair advantage.