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How does a 7-year-old startup beat out the legacy defense contractors for a potentially $8.9B contract?

Start with "outsiders" to disrupt. Bring in "insiders" to scale.

For the first few years, hashtag#Anduril built a team of top tech startup alumni to achieve the pace and culture of innovation required to disrupt a decades-old industry notorious for bureaucracy-stalled rates of progress.

In the last 18 months, Anduril's hiring patterns have changed. As Anduril matures, they're now hiring more talent from the legacy contractors – people with the experience to help reach scale and navigate government contracts.

"Anduril is proving that with the right team and business model, a seven-year-old company can go toe-to-toe with players that have been around for 70+. The real winner? The United States of America." – Palmer Luckey

In the last couple of years, Anduril has beat out the legacy defense contractors for $Billions worth of contracts. As the US military looks to private defense tech start-ups and VCs pour even more capital into private defense tech companies, which other defense startups will adopt Anduril's hiring playbook?

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