"“We were operating out of this mobile office trailer,” Schimpf remembers. “It was really in the middle of the desert. You'd find abandoned boats out there. Once, there was this dude who showed up with a backhoe. We asked what he was up to, and he told us 'oh, I'm just moving some dirt.' He just moved some dirt around, and then he left.”"
"“It was a 45-minute round trip to get to the nearest Jersey Mike's,” he laughs. “ So much Jersey Mike's.” Anduril's come very 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)."
"Schimpf-CEO and cofounder of Anduril, then a startup in the truest sense of the word-had been there for a while, building the defense tech company's first product: autonomous, solar-powered surveillance towers, called Sentry towers. And things got Coen brothers-movie weird."
In 2017, Brian Schimpf worked in Apple Valley, California, while building Anduril’s first product: autonomous, solar-powered surveillance towers called Sentry towers. Operations ran from a mobile office trailer in the desert, where unusual sights and activities were common, including abandoned boats and a man who arrived with a backhoe to move dirt and leave. Schimpf had recently transitioned from being director of engineering at Palantir, bringing a steady, dry-humored perspective to the work. Anduril later grew substantially, reaching a valuation of $30.5 billion and gaining increasing traction with the Pentagon, with Schimpf serving as CEO since the company’s founding.
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