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Fortune
Nicholas Gordon

Will Anduril founder Palmer Luckey’s insistence on deferring to U.S. interests scare off the allies he wants to arm?

(Credit: Kyle Grillot—Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Palmer Luckey is clear when asked whether he would sell weapons to North Korea. “If the U.S. asks me to, yes.”

Anduril, the defense-technology startup Luckey founded in 2017 after his politically charged departure from Facebook, could be set for a $60 billion valuation. The company is riding a record surge in global defense spending and a shift in Silicon Valley sentiment toward working with the military, selling autonomous systems such as its Fury drone and Ghost Shark submarine to U.S. partners including Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. 

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