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Fortune
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Founder of $30 billion defense tech company Anduril embraces Trump’s threat to crack down: It’s ‘good to scare people sometimes’

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While some companies and analysts fret about President Donald Trump’s threat to crack down on the defense industry, the founder of a $30 billion defense tech company has emerged as an unlikely supporter of his massive overhaul.

Palmer Luckey, who founded defense tech company Anduril in 2017, came out in nearly full support of Trump’s policies. While he noted without elaborating that all the changes “might not necessarily help the defense space,” he stood by Trump’s policy changes despite the president’s rebuke of defense companies as well as their CEOs.

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