Anduril in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, over 3x last year's mark
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Re: Anduril in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, over 3x last year's mark
#3Making cheap, “attritable” hardware is fundamentally at odds with raising billions. Cheap drones are winning on the battlefield, but you can’t just spend your way to making something cheap and effective. Effective solutions are born out of grit, will, desperation and sheer necessity, not out of lazy rich greedy spoiled people who’ve never seen a real battlefield investing money in “cheap weapons” because that’s what’s marketable and cool now. And it’s the American taxpayer footing the bill for this immense waste.
Re: Anduril in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, over 3x last year's mark
#4Nothing like taking in government money and then making billions off of it without giving anything back.
Re: Anduril in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, over 3x last year's mark
#5Making cheap, “attritable” hardware is fundamentally at odds with raising billions. Cheap drones are winning on the battlefield, but you can’t just spend your way to making something cheap and effective. Effective solutions are born out of grit, will, desperation and sheer necessity, not out of lazy rich greedy spoiled people who’ve never seen a real battlefield investing money in “cheap weapons” because that’s what’…
You've got a good point, but they might spend a lot on the software side too, and any kind of weapons manufacturing in America will be expensive compared to other countries.