@StartupArchive_: Palmer Luckey on what he looks for when hiring people at Anduril “The most important advice that I can give people is t…

Palmer Luckey on what he looks for when hiring people at Anduril “The most important advice that I can give people is to work on projects that you care about. Don’t look to school — whether it’s college or the state-mandated educational system. Don’t look to them to tell you, ‘Here’s what electronics projects you should be working on.’” There’s two reasons Palmer gives aspiring young innovators this advice: “Schools are often years (sometimes decades) behind what industry and hobbyists are actually doing.” “When you’re working on something that you’re only doing for yourself, you’re going to make way better decisions in what you teach yourself and how you do things.” In fact, this is also what he looks for when hiring people at Anduril: “When I hire people at Anduril, I look for people who have done projects that were outside of what their work paid them to do or what their school made them do because that means they’re the type of person who is willing to work on things with their own money and their own time because they want to bring something to this world that wouldn’t have existed otherwise.” Palmer continues: “That’s what drives you to learn the most. That’s what drives you to have the right attitude around all this stuff.” Source: @ShawnRyan762 (Feb 2025)