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, you know, younger educational system, don't look to them to tell you, here's what electronics projects you should be working on. Here's what you should be doing to learn how to do these things. Because one, they're often years or even decades behind what industry and hobbyists are actually doing. So you're gonna be learning how to do things that are ancient. Two, when you're working on something that you're only doing for yourself, you're gonna make way better decisions. I generally find in what you teach yourself, in how you do things. Like, 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 into this world that wouldn't have existed otherwise. And to me, those are the projects that people. That's what drives you to learn the most. It's what drives you to have the right attitude around all this stuff.