Drones, missiles, and warships were, for a long time, deemed uninvestable in Silicon Valley—or, at minimum, contentious.
Consider 2018: Googlers were storming out over their company’s involvement in the AI military initiative Project Maven, and Anduril was an anomaly, a multimillion-dollar defense-focused startup soon to be headlined as “the most controversial startup” in tech. VCs touched defense rarely, if at all.
