Across Silicon Valley, coders are loudly condemning their companies' involvement in military research. Not at Anduril, the rare venture capital-backed startup that has proudly joined the military-industrial complex.
On a Friday afternoon in late July, a crowd of techies, military types and a few civilians deployed to the new Irvine headquarters of Anduril Industries, a defense tech start-up, to sip hibiscus margaritas and admire the sensor towers and carbon-fiber drones on display. Dave Brubeck tinkled over the sound system, and the dress code skewed office casual and pastel, offset by the bright red pop of a lone “Make America Great Again” hat by the taco bar.
Armed instead with large scissors, and wearing his trademark uniform of Hawaiian shirt, cargo shorts and flip-flops, he dropped some Tolkien on the audience. Whether those kinds of missions represent the best of Western values is a debate preoccupying the biggest companies in Silicon Valley. At leading software firms such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce, employees are loudly condemning their companies’ involvement in military research. The controversy even reached online furniture retailer Wayfair, where employeesLuckey, who has emerged as one of the tech industry’s most outspokenly right-wing figures, has welcomed this battle.
But there’s more than ideology behind Luckey’s embrace of the U.S. military, which had a $730-billion budget in 2019.
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