Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey said big tech companies resist working with the U.S. Defense Department on military innovations largely because they fear doing so would anger China and prevent them from making money there.
Luckey also challenged the notion that employee concerns keep big tech companies away from military work.
“A lot of companies have financial and PR incentives to stay out of military work, so they’re happy to use those employees as a scapegoat to say, ‘We’re listening to our employees.’…which contributes to this idea that workers of Silicon Valley and other tech hubs are universally opposed to this idea,” Luckey told the Web Summit last week.
His remarks were reported by PRNewswire.
