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Brian Schimpf

Cofounder, Anduril Industries

Search every verified Brian Schimpf interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Brian Schimpf, co-founder and CEO of Anduril, discussed the company's recent activities in interviews, including a tender offer allowing employees to sell shares at a valuation of roughly $90 billion. He stated that the private market provides the capital needed to stay focused on a "massive, unprecedented ramp in defense production" and that the tender offer gives employees liquidity without distracting them with stock prices. He also mentioned Anduril's new line of affordable missile interceptors and a multibillion-dollar shipyard investment in Maryland, including a nearly $3 billion commitment from the U.S. Navy, describing the work on nuclear submarines as a serious undertaking that requires novel manufacturing and supply chain approaches. In a separate interview, Schimpf addressed the challenges of scaling weapons production, noting that modern conflicts consume munitions at a high rate and that growth costs are carried years in advance of output. He said the volume of weapons used in current conflicts is high, citing an example of depleting a decade of Tomahawk production in three days, and expressed uncertainty about how quickly production can ramp due to long lead times on parts. He also discussed the role of AI in defense, stating that while people may be nervous about lethal autonomous weapons, the technology's development will be shaped by geopolitical and technological realities, and he emphasized that human commanders should remain accountable for decisions to use force.

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“The lesson I take away the most is what you look at what's being struck or denied or degraded. It's not like military infrastructure, right? Like it's not Iran is attriting our destroyers and our aircraft and all those things. They are going after economic infrastructure of everyone in the region, right? They are going after data centers, oil refineries, right? And they control Strait of Hormuz was not primarily abou”

“The volume of weapons that these modern conflicts are consuming is so high. We shot something like a decade of Tomahawk production in three days. There's a lot of reasons to believe that the things can ramp and increase, but I think probably is not as much as anyone hopes. If you got two year lead time on your parts, you're not going to see more output for two years, right? So you're not even going to know if it's wo”

“The question is how do you stabilize the world? From our perspective, you have a lot of different trends occurring. One there's a technology change. So you've got the ability for nations—historically making like a cruise missile or ballistic missile was something very few nation states can do. The degree to which that has proliferated is massive. You see what Iran has done, the number of other nations who have access”

“China has intentionally taken a strategy over decades of strategically chokepointing key supply chain items. So the rare earth magnets is one that came up during the trade negotiations that they basically have locked down export of magnet manufacturing technologies as well as controlling the outflows of those magnets as a negotiating lever.”

“the counter view of, well, we shouldn't have AI and weapons to me is just a deeply unethical view where you're saying, oh, actually, we should have dumber weapons. We should have weapons that don't make smart decisions. You're like, well, that that seems like a strictly worse world to live in.”

“Deterrence really becomes about convincing your adversaries that it's not going to work. We need to make it clear that our allies have the best kit to actually stop aggression and that importantly our adversaries know that they have it.”

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