Facebook Made This 29-Year-Old Rich; War Made Him A Billionaire | Forbes 

Well-stated.

also the lack of corporate BS and meaningless jargon

No cognitive dissonance

It's called having a car salesman attitude. Gullible fools will listen to charlatans sell them anything.

He says similar things as General McMaster said on Rogen.

are u actually bear from the survivor show?

Hawaiian shirt is key

Best comment I’ve ready today

Speaking the 1000% truth.

when you have that much money, you get bored you know

Creating war machines ain't it.

@@thescribe3184 Believe it or not bud, bad people exist in the world. They're not going away just because you shut your eyes and plug your ears. Shocker I know.

The fact that he's very aware of how to blatantly rip off the taxpayers but decides not to do it says a lot about his character.

I LOVE WARFARE I LOVE MAKING MONEY FROM BOMBING CHILDREN IN THE MIDDLE EAST -you, please stop commenting

People are and will always be filled with hypocrisy.

I agree, as this "ideal" assumes national leaders or military advisors are not megalomaniacs and would always make calculated decisions based on well-informed consideration of odds and the cost of lives and resources.

It's true tho. A lot of nations in the world would be having a war at this moment if nuclear weapons didn't exist.

technology always evolves and improves it is inevitable

​@@confusedcaveman5678 Yes, but if (or when) they are used again, I'm not certain that the wars they prevented will still have been worth it.

He gets zero bitches

exactly, china and russia will buy

Was just about to say that

Yeah, he knows what's he doing

I mean all a smart person really needs is one opportunity to make enough money to fund the rest of your intelligence. Having the opportunity have a safe space to think of ideas and means and connection to create and execute and have ideas funded is a rare opportunity in itself let alone twice. It wasn't him alone but he's got the baton now.

THE ANTI CHRIST

At 21 i sold my car for 2k profit

The problem is now instead of just fighting contractors he is also fighting politicians because they want their cut from overblown projects aswell.

@@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 yep

@@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 Oh yeah... This comment right here.

Actually they do the same thing. They got money to build products for SOCOM earlier this year. So what this Palmer is saying contradicts with the actions Anduril is taking. I can understand, it's easy to say you are going to put a billion of your own on the line, but that is just risky. Imagine building a product that doesn't sell. The company might go bankrupt after 1 or 2 products; defense products are a huge time and money investment.

@@manchuratt8900 exactly

I really the way he speaks... He doesn't speak like a snob, rather he speaks speaks in a VERY logical, simple, concise and enthuastic manner.

He is extremely good with words, but I don't think Anduril is a net good company for humanity. Talent should be working on common enemies that kill way more people and pose much bigger threats than wars, like microbes. COVID killed more people than any war or armed conflict since WW2. If humanity simply loses fear to guns and weapons, it will have no power to control anyone. His whole speech is based on fear. The US as-is is basically unrivaled in terms of military power, and even if it stopped funding its military I believe regular people would simply not comply with whatever power is trying to take over through force. I also believe that as the guns pile up, it's our ultimate destiny to go extinct as a species, if our species is characterized as aggressive to its own kind, or with a tendency to take over each other through force whenever it can. The same way Tasmania's demons are going extinct because they fight too much. If we don't change that, no amount of weapons will stop us from eventual self destruction, will we be counting death stars as deterrents? Childish.

@@nixtoshi Nobody is for weapons proliferation but we also cannot be naive to think we live in a utopian World where sophisticated bad faith actors do not exist. China is a near peer adversary which has total disregard for fundamental values like free speech, free expression, suffrage, judicial independence, free political environment.

That is most certainly correct and will be a huge benefit for society. This kind of thing mixed with the movement of decentralisation from the crypto world are going to solve a lot of our problems if we can pull it off. Fingers crossed!

But why is this beneficial? Surely we want less wars

@@ahmedo7875 "If you want peace prepare for war"

@@tylerwellick1623 hm I guess true but I think nuclear only prevents that tbh, no other weapon at this point has that same fear/threat most wars are started today with nuclear nations vs non nuclear or non nuclear vs non nuclear

Great space to disrupt. MIC

You're right, his manipulation skills are top of the line.

@@chrisheist652 ?

@@Zeitlos4ever Palmer is a weapons salesman, and he spun it like he's a hero. This evil industry is looking to convert tech geniuses away from their usual anti-war mentality, so he's one of their main pitch-men for making young entrepreneurs think that the war business ain't so bad after all, when it totally is. Don't cooperate with the empire. No matter how much better than Lockheed or Raytheon this place may be, it's still partcipating with and helping the giant machine that turns human beings into ground beef for cash.

I agree that his story telling is insane, I think at least 3 standard deviations above average, which combined with his technical talent makes him like Steve Jobs AND Wozniak combined in one person. He is potentially selling us on machines designed to kill humans, yet we buy it, and we believe that he is saving the world and creating global peace, seems unintuitive, and I'm not sure if making increasingly more powerful and destructive weapons as a deterrent is a good thing for humanity, specially when people that seem emotionally unstable are given the keys to nuclear bombs. The US isn't only building a defensive military force which would be in line with the narrative of peace keeping, but it's actually armed with weapons of mass destruction that can't serve as part of a defense system, only as counter attack and attack weapons. I don't think that war deserves much funding at all, I would only protect against a potential extraterrestrial invasion. After all, we are all in this together and have way worse enemies than each other, like microbes, the environment, etc. COVID killed more people that all wars since WW2

Thanks Utopian! I’m glad Ukraine spent a little money on War products. They are coming in handy… For every useful idiot’s peace dream there is a Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, idi Amin etc and now Putin on a lower tier.

this dude could become a target if he keeps on going. lets hope his drone army keeps him safe

I promise you this company is meaningless compared to the other companies in terms of defense. I do think he is cool for being so candid. Like others he still wants the taxpayers money which is fine. Also we are ahead of China still in ai. All I know is some have better hypersonic missiles. I still question how his company is reducing conflict. The only potential war that is meaningful for the us is Taiwan. Outside of that ehhh. Ai is something we must put money into so we don’t get passed by China in the next 5 years.

This is not always practical because you only get payed if your stuff worked, irrespective of the fact that you have to buy equipment, pay engineers, etc. As an Engineer, most of your projects will either fail or become obsolete by the time they're ready.

@@manneredcheetah6665 hes gonna be a target for sure. If Boeing and Lockheed sees their bottom line be threatened, their gonna hire Forbes, Washington Post, Huffington Post, and Business Insider to mass produce smear peaces and slander articles, like they have done multiple times with "inconvenient actors". BMW has done the same with Tesla recently. Same with Mercedes. This isnt just American defence companies, this is the corporate world in general.

To be fair to those evil companies, their products kill thousands of people per year, for lots of cash. And Palmer wants to be one of them. It's a good business model, ending the world.

Extremely well said!

He is rich and successful af to be honest

I don’t live in the US but I live in an allied country. Defence systems like this will win future wars. The idea that a country has defensive capabilities so strong that it’s a mute point to even bother attacking them is what I wanna see. We don’t need faster Tomahawk missiles. We need systems that can destroy them faster.

Yeah...Until the trolls come around and start being entitled to all his money like he picked it off the floor.. Ill never understand the mindset of everyone who hate on legitimate billionaires for nothing. Like they earned it. It wasn't handed over to them. (Pardon my rant) Well said man. May he become even more rich and successful. He deserves it.

@@m.othegreat5420 To you he is, to himself he hasn't reached his goals yet. Clearly, when most billionaires become billionaires they realize that sitting on their hands in the Virgin Islands gets boring, they get back to being active about something their passionate about or contribute more to what made them successful in the first place.

He seem 37

Exactly. Too many Marlboro 100s 🚬

Loool, he is living his best life.

Business owner/start up founder has large stress to overcome unthinkable/unpredictable roadblock. They dont do things the usual way. I think that also affecting their mental health and rest time which makes them look older than it should be.

He probably works 24/7, unlike these pretend 'hustlers' and 'entrepreneurs'.

ensure or insure? im not native, i cannot understand your sentence meaning xD

@@BaNuj Insure, a synonym would be guarentee ( ...life as to guarentee peace )

Imagine what all these genius level minds could be doing for the planet instead of making weapons for 'peace'. There is no doubt in my mind that the human race will destroy itself, and very soon indeed. Look at the gain of function research that created covid, or the GMO seeds that are pollinating and destroying natural strains of food. These are just a small taste of what science and technology are bringing to the world.

@@j4genius961 No, you're thinking of ensure. Insure is not synonymous with guarantee. Ensure and insure and two different words.

That’s one of the most naive things I’ve heard in a while - but not surprised considering you don’t know the difference between insurance and assurance - insure and ensure.

its unlikely he owned the whole thing personally. Probably VC backed to get to a 2bn mcap.

@@Fattimithy He definitely didn't own the whole company and they raised plenty of VC cash. I'm pretty sure Palmer was smart enough to keep the majority which would've been over/close to $1B after the sale.

@@loganfitzpatrick3333 Doubtful. He wasn't the only founder, and would've been diluted many times. 50%+ founders at that scale are extremely rare. The only one I can think of is Zuckerberg.

@@ErikPukinskis to clarify Zuckerberg doesn’t own fifty percent of the equity shares he only owns ~12% of facebooks equity. It’s just that the shares he owns have outsized voting right. If Facebook was bought out tomorrow he would only get 12% but he would control the decision of whether or not to get bought out

Correcting the title like your his accountant?

No taxpayer money should go to waste funding the us military

@@TheIRSneedsme lol might as well kiss the super power status goodbye

@@TheIRSneedsme Mexican.

@@TheIRSneedsme Beijing, is that you ?

No company will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build jets, planes and tanks without a commitment. The military is their only customer. If the govt decides not to proceed with the product it's not like they can just sell it to consumers....

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Generics matters 😂 you might grow older than him but in his old age he could be looking very young .

your mom also thinks he could be your dad

You already have it

Need to be said more! "build stuff that can't be challenged" can be applied on everything

It's called nukes. We already have those.

Maxim, Browning, Manhattan project all made this claim

@@deep.space.12 Pretty sure Al-Qaeda really cared about our Nukes when they comitted the largest massacre of American civillians since the 1800's. The truth is the fact that Western countries in Europe and North America have to spend money on military whether they like it or not. As Ukraine and Hong Kong shows us, Authoritarian regimes do not care about peace sustained by economic ties. Theres a tipping point where their ego surpasses their need for economy, and produces the next putin.

Don't be a sucker, that's what they all say. They all call themselves 'defense' companies, but we know what they are.

100% hard work, good decision making and a little luck.

Regulation and administration can be pretty easy.

All of this is going to come home and be used on the american people you better believe it.

Why you don’t work anymore?

I want to work there 😂😅😂😅

Living in his own little fantasy world that is spilling into the real world, sounds good to me...

He's adapted and evolved.

How did you conclude this is clear?

About time!

Well said

The combined military power of democratic nations must be considerable larger than communist and authoritarian nations like russia and china in order to maintain the individual human freedom

If you don't make it then someone else will, so better be ahead of your counterparts

@@pranav8423 This line of thinking is basically one of the fundamental causes of unnecessary violence. When you act on assumptions you make you _still_ need to take into consideration that your (pre-emptive) actions might very well be what are materializing the outcome you're trying to prevent. What do you think countries like China are thinking when they see the US spending 700 billion on their military? Is it not logical for them to feel threatened and as a result step up their defense game as well? And then in turn the US will take this as a reason to spend _even more_ on defense as China is clearly a threat, and so on. If no one breaks the cycle, it will spinn out of control. We have seen this before. "Oh I thought they would make these weapons if we didn't do it first" "Oh I thought he had a gun so I shot him" "Oh we thought they had WMD so we _had_ to invade" And that's all not even mentioned the significant profit US is making by leasing/selling their old weapons etc.

@@coin5207 I don't think the rhetoric matters so much. Behind Facebook's "we want to connect humanity and build a better world" and this guy's "we want to build weapons to prevent war" is purely self serving rhetoric to expand their own business empire. It's profit and power at the end of the day, and rationalizations are just that, rationalizations to make themselves or their employees feel better about a disgusting business mission.

@@coin5207 "When you act on assumptions you make you still need to take into consideration that your (pre-emptive) actions might very well be what are materializing the outcome you're trying to prevent." My country went against this notion, and it still backfired on us. Our Chinese enemies developed nuclear arms, hence forcing us to do the same. Your line of thinking is wrong.

100%

It seems like in many cases militaries from the US and EU are letting it slide and making profit that way.

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Be safe

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Amazon has NSA surveillance contracts (Dell was runner-up)

If he's right, the damage he does to this world is immense. At least Elizabeth Holmes as a fraud was not capable of building tech that may end human civilization.

Dunno.. most of us in tech will treat people in suits with suspicion on their capability.

Anyone with suits is to be regarded with suspicion imo. You go to a job to WORK. You got to a job to get the job done. What you wear is meaningless. Especially if a technology company cares about discipline, conformity, or suits, then they are not efficient. They should be caring abotu whats important. Their end product. Wear whats comfortable, and what helps you get your desk job done.

Exactly what I was thinking. Other defense contractors companies has a lot of friends in the government to win those contracts...they mostly do for the money not to build up the country. USA is the most corrupt country ever, they just hide it behind a suit

More people like him, who got the public to crowdfund an innovative technology intended to be affordable and open for all to develop for it freely, then turn his back on those people who made it possible, and sell it off to a heartless and borderline criminal megacorp who spies on their members, sells their behavioral data, and manipulates them, and puts the technology behind their company gates. Yep. Definitely need more immoral people like him to choose his selfish greed over the good and advancement of all humanity. Actions speak louder than words.

@@nightmark2120 you got greedy politician and execs that leech on taxpayer money...like i said USA the most corrupted country, they hide it behind a suit

I agree.. The way he operates is like a Fast Moving Consumer Company (FMCG) rather than those big B2B companies (e.g. Lockheed, Boeing and etc).

Lockheed and Raytheon may be far worse, but any of these companies that are bringing about the downfall of human society should be condemned.

Killing machines? He makes drones, and equipment to fight against drone swarm attacks. Look at how Saudi Arabian oil facilities were hit by $50 drones with an IED strapped to them. Its important to manufacture this stuff in as cheap a manner of possible if we want to compete with China. Production and resource management wins wars. its how we won WW2. China took that production capacity away, so we gotta improvize.

@supremesanda yay?

Nobody is for weapons but we also cannot be naive to think we live in a utopian World where bad actors do not exist. Too many Europeans and some Americans make this mistake.

@@farzana6676 I do not believe such an utopian world exists. And weapons will be needed. But I also think we don't need any nuclear weapons, cluster bombs and toxics etc etc. And most certainly not readily available firearms (automatic or normal) for the general public, what many (republican) Americans think is the solution.

@@MaraldBes Our firearms are our God given right. When seconds matter, the police are only minutes away.

@@farzana6676 not god given, but amended to the by people who like guns. And maybe police are minutes away but still does most of Asia, Australia and Europe where ppl don’t carry their own guns have just a fraction of deaths caused by firearms compare this to the USA, where a bullet is probably your highest chance to die any day.

@@MaraldBes Yes people who like guns = majority of Americans 🇺🇸 America also has the highest probability of chance of protecting yourself with a gun.

Another Theranos scam type of thing? lol

Glad to know that not only me think he seem fishy. The way he speak. Maybe i am wrong and he is really good.... but it seems fishy to me.

@@Matt-fq6ly Nah. What he makes has already been deployed, and is in use by multiple countries. Theres nothing unproven about the technology he speaks of. The real benefit of what he proposes, is how cheap it is compared to other alternatives. Better fight a $400 drone, with a $500 drone and a $10k radar system. The alternative is a $20Million CIWS that depletes $70k worth of ammo within seconds, just to shoot down a $400 drone.

What do you expect them to put on those pallet racks? Actual product? You realize thats not even a warehouse right?

and kill people?

Me too!

Maybe you should think about what you're doing and not join the empire.

Defence tech. I dont know. CIA will start monitoring you thereafter. Plus, lots of work. Better just stick to fintech.

You can be a wage slave at countless other companies, why follow this guy?

Based

Because he wants it that way. He’s focused on actual goals instead of bragging

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He has really made name for himself,

... I don't get it. He does make defence tech. Hist product are literally only for defence. They're not weapons and wouldn't work as such.

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