They’ve shown this in small ways, and it’s about the big swings from here
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Key facts
In 2017, Brian Schimpf was in the California desert with an engineering problem to solve — It was a 45-minute round trip to get to the nearest Jersey Mike’s,” he laughs
Anduril’s come far since those days, the company valued at $30.5 billion and counting, with increasing traction at the Pentagon (albeit with a long way to go on many fronts)
The stakes are only getting higher for Anduril and Schimpf from here, says Philip Clark, partner at Anduril-backer Thrive
Summary
In 2017, Brian Schimpf was in the California desert with an engineering problem to solve. The place was Apple Valley, expansive, sandy, and surreal. “We were operating out of this mobile office trailer,” Schimpf remembers. The team asked what he was up to, and he told them ‘oh, the reporter is moving some dirt.’ He moved some dirt around, and then he left.” You have to imagine it was a time warp for Schimpf: a few months before, after all, he’d been director of engineering at Palantir. The team covered everything from his college days, to criticisms of how Anduril drones have performed in Ukraine, to his views on AI. “It was a 45-minute round trip to get to the nearest Jersey Mike’s,” he laughs.