Trae Stephens (@traestephens) / X

Trae Stephens

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Trae Stephens

@traestephens

Partner, Founders Fund; Co-Founder, Anduril; Co-Founder, Sol

San Francisco, CA

Joined April 2010

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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Nov 23, 2022
1/ History is the record of TOP players completing GOOD quests. This is a moral imperative. Check out the latest @PirateWires post by @markiewagner and I and ask yourself what the world would look like if our best players all took on good quests.
Choose Good Quests
From piratewires.com
Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Sep 18, 2024
Uhhh…no?
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Jul 18, 2025
There are only four tier-1 cities in the 🇺🇸: New York (finance) DC (government) San Francisco (tech) LA (media & entertainment) No other cities are power centers for aspirational talent. Sorry.
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Jan 23, 2024
Maxwell Meyer
@mualphaxi
Jan 22, 2024
Stanford Graduate School of Business *denies* the app for a "Defense Tech Club." Apparently they let a student committee decide? Naturally they have a dozen DEI clubs, an epicurean club for eating, and a club for the "mental health industry." Priorities! h/t @hardaway_cam
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Jul 18, 2025
Replying to @traestephens
Based on replies, here are the people arguing for other cities: Austin (people who live in Austin) Boston (people who are REALLY upset about Trump's Harvard attack) Dallas/Houston (people who have only lived in TX) Miami (people who love money but don't love to work)
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Aug 9, 2024
After significant deliberation, we have decided to not pursue building the Arsenal facility in San Francisco.
Anduril Industries
@anduriltech
Aug 8, 2024
Anduril has secured $1.5B in Series F funding to hyperscale defense manufacturing. Introducing Arsenal-1, a 5M+ sq ft state-of-the-art facility to produce autonomous weapons systems. Learn more: anduril.com/article/anduri…
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Aug 14, 2025
Unlike our friends at Palantir, we're backing AMERICA'S race sport (on a Naval base!), not the Euro-sissies at F1. Happy 250th, America! Shake and Bake.
NASCAR
@NASCAR
Aug 14, 2025
The Anduril 250 Race the Base at Naval Base Coronado will roar to life in 2026. We’re excited to have @anduriltech as the Official Defense Partner of NASCAR as we continue our longstanding support of our U.S. Armed Forces.
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Jul 30, 2025
And this is why the government can’t recruit/retain top tech talent. Embarrassing.
Lulu Cheng Meservey
@lulumeservey
Jul 30, 2025
lol, lmao, etc
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Jan 16, 2025
My mom’s been begging me to move back to Ohio for years, so as a consolation prize I’m sending 4,000 Anduril employees there in my place. The true mastermind behind getting Anduril to Ohio.
Anduril Industries
@anduriltech
Jan 16, 2025
Anduril has selected Columbus, Ohio as the location of Arsenal-1, our first hyperscale manufacturing facility. We are investing nearly $1 billion of our own money and will bring more than 4,000 direct jobs in the largest single job-creation project in Ohio history. Arsenal-1
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Nov 11, 2025
There-are-no-s ubstitutes. We’re here to stay.
Anduril Industries
@anduriltech
Nov 10, 2025
"The Theranos of defense."
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Jul 18, 2025
Replying to @traestephens
Someone just commented arguing for CLEVELAND. 🤣
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Apr 5, 2025
We're hiring our first roles at Arsenal-1 in Columbus! Many more to come. Here's my DIY ad (don't kill me @jendarhy) for real Ohioans. anduril.com/open-roles/?lo…
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Aug 21, 2025
Peter has been thinking a lot recently about the modern conception of the antichrist. Some of your joined one of the "Plague Theology" sessions he and I hosted on the topic during COVID. Some of you listened to his interview with Ross Douthat a couple of months ago (yes,
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Trae Stephens
@traestephens
Aug 23, 2024
Working at Anduril sucks. If you sign an anti-American petition, you’ll just get fired.
Vera Bergengruen
@VeraMBergen
Aug 22, 2024
Nearly 200 workers inside Google DeepMind, the company’s AI division, signed a letter calling on the tech giant to drop its contracts with military organizations, @billyperrigo reports time.com/7013685/google…
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