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Trae Stephens is Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, and a General Partner at venture capital firm Founders Fund, where he invests across sectors with a particular interest in startups operating in the government space.

Previously, Trae was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, where he led teams focused on growth in the intelligence and defense sector as well as international expansion, helping large organizations solve their hardest data analysis problems. He was also an integral part of the product team, leading the design and strategy for new product offerings. While at Palantir, Trae also served as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University.

Before joining Palantir, Trae worked as a computational linguist building enterprise solutions to Arabic/Persian name matching and data enrichment within the U.S. Intelligence Community. He began his career working in the office of then Congressman Rob Portman and in the Political Affairs Office at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C. immediately following the installation of Hamid Karzai’s transitional government. Trae graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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Eric Brown

Awesome episode Shawn. Great to hear from someone with this vast knowledge in the defense space. Trae seems like an amazing follower of Christ in such a godless part of our country. The tide is turning though which is great to hear.

Zib

Great interview Shawn!! Very interesting perspective about college and his background. Loved his approach to admission!!

Robert Diggins

Good discussion about education. There's a lot of angles to the topic, and I think more depth to admissions, but the overarching SCAM involves the colleges/universities, the banks, and the government. There's extremely high tuition at public land grant universities with a 150+ year old mission statement to "Educate the people of the state", getting tons of tax dollars every year and having tuition go up double digit percent year after year for too many years. It started a long time ago. Around the turn of the century. But this kids get government guaranteed loans, and the banks are making out like bandits, with no way to get out of the loans through bankruptcy. There's so much middle management bloat at the universities, it's in effing sane. Sure, you got a buddy that needs a job and your an associate dean? No problem, move some deck chairs and now he's supervising the full stack developers, and has 0 tech experience and there are only 2cdevelopers,vwho already manage all projects and clients. But, hey, all that work they do needs someone to get a effing award for taking credit. So, start by giving him the interview questions in advance and then make sure anybody else intererviewed for the unnecessary job is not from education, but a programmer of machines in a factory and, well, it all works out. THIS IS WHAT YOU TELL YOUR KIDS: "If you want to go to college, just get a job at the college,cat least 30 hours, because then, tuition for any classes you take is free, and you just pay some fees and buy books (which are another SCAM). Then, you'll get work experience, and you can still graduate in 4 years if you work hard. But, you might just stop taking classes, because you've found meaningful work - hint: shoot for the administration, any low level job. Those have the most ability for networking and you get to know how the world works a lot faster, because the VPs at a big 10 university don't even know there are students. You see the most 2 faced, manipulative weirdos running around being 'in charge' and updating their resume with the things they spend money on, which were ideas they had about updating their resumes. So, as soon as you get used to THAT, you can excel pretty quickly and either get a free education or a career in higher ed. You will find hard workers there, as well, so you're going to need to pick a side. You can add value, or be taken advantage of. But either one is better than paying TUITION ! OR go to a community college and get a vocation. Even though those are disappearing. But, just make sure the first 2 years of TUITION are cheaper and your credits can transfer to your targeted 4 year school. And it's a great time to become savvy with the AI layer on any software, especially programming, bc you're going to leap frog past people who e been building those skills for decades, but there are so many niche development platforms, they're going to want to keep doing what they learned how to do, in legacy environments. "💡 That's my advice. 👋

Robert Diggins

Also, I was an unusual teenager in the 80s and in addition to sports and academics, I paid attention to politics and Iran contra in the 80s. I see the Moral Majority 2.0 push and IT'S BAD. I can also see people who have NO CLUE THAT PEOPLE WERE HAPPY THAT THE COLD WAR ENDED. Let me ask you, WHEN DOES PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH END? WHEN DOES THE F*CKING ARMS RACE END? BC THAT'S ALL IT IS. ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP ON DOMINATING UNTIL YOU STOP EVERY OTHER COUNTRY FROM DEVELOPING NEW TECH? OR, IS IT WHEN WE HAVE A TOTALITARIAN GLOBAL POLICEE STATE, BC THAT'S THE ONLY OTHER LOGICAL CONCLUSION TO "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH" AS DIPLOMACY, WHICH YOU BOTH BELIEVE IS THE STRATEGY FOR SECURITY AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT'S COMPLETE 🐂 💩 AND, INSTEAD OF THE "PEACE DIVIDEND", WE GOT NAFTA AND THE REPEAL OF GLASS STEAGALL, BECAUSE YOU AREN'T, INSTEAD, TELLING PEOPLE TO LEAVE THE TOTALLY CORRUPT TWO PARTY DUOPOLY AND START VOTING FOR INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES. AT LEAST HONORING YOUR VOTING RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES BY VOTING YOUR CONSCIENCE. WE'RE SCREWED, IF THE PEOPLE WHO GOT PISSED ABOUT HALLIBURTON ARE CALLING FOR "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH" AND USING THE BIBLE TO BACK IT UP. IT'S (CAN I SAY IT NOW?) ...RETARDED AF!!! 😔 WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!!! HOW ABOUT PEACE THROUGH JUSTICE? ISN'T THAT WHAT THIS POPULISM IS REALLY ABOUT? BUT, RAMBO SCHWARZENEGGER WANBABES SELLING THE SOFTWARE - TO THE PEOPLE WHO WILL ABUSE THE ABILITY TO CONNECT ALL YOUR DATA, DOMESTICALLY? HEALTH, BANKING, ...CONSUMING NEXT? OH, YEAH, GOT THAT ALREADY. CIA VENTURE, GOOGLE HAS BEEN CAUGHT TOO MANY TIMES, HARVESTING WEB TRAFFIC DATA FROM SCHOOLKUDS. THE FINES ARE PART OF DOING BUSINESS. YOU. DO. NOT. GET. IT. DOMINANCE DOES NOT SHARE AND "THE HOMELAND* HAS BEEN DECLARED AS "PART OF THE BATTLEFIELD", SINCE 2001. TALK ABOUT SOME NOT HARD QUESTIONS AND SOME DISINGENUOUS ANSWERS. AUDIENCE: THIS IS ENTERTAINMENT, NOT NEWS. JUSF A REMINDER. THE DISCOUNTING OF CONCERNS ABOUT PRIVACY, HERE, WHERE PATRIOTS FLOCK, IS DISGRACEFUL. BIBLE STUDY WITH THIEL. AWW SCHUCKS. THIS WAS A DISTURBING DISPLAY OF UN-AMERICAN IDEALS. DC IS DESPOTIC AND NEEDS TO BE CLEANED UP, INCLUDING THE PENTTAGON AND THE IC. SO, NO NEW TOOLS FOR PROFILING AMERICAN CITIZENS. THE PUBLIC IS NOT A SLEEPER CELL. THREATS ONLY GET FIXED BY JUSTICE. FOREIGN POLICY, SAME. PLEASE DON'T RATIONALIZE THIS SH*T WITH JESUS. THAT'S WHY IT'S BAD. A TOTAL GASLIGHTING PROGRAM. SAME AS THE 80s. Same as it ever was. The guest said "It's just like 150 AD" about the Church. If the audience doesn't question authority, in-group, please feel stupid. Be honest. Thanks /rant /LOGIC

Adam

I’m in manufacturing Trae. We’ll make ya some parts man.

Jo

I have 2 genz kids. My oldest got her 2 year at community college, then went to Tech for a science degree in forestry wildlife and fisheries. She knows she can't get a job using that degree in the middle of New York, but she went to school with a lot of kids who had some crazy notion that they could get a six figure job in social services. How can you look at the # of kids in your class and believe their are enough 6 figure jobs out there for you all? SMH, the college fills them with delusions. My youngest is a junior in High school and were asking her to get her 2 year at the cc. After that I'm trying to convince her to look at AI or engineering or trade school. (MATH is her best subject) I personally think she'd be an awesome SAH mom, that teaches her own kids. It's an uphill battle with the culture pushing Boss babe mentality, and the "i don't need a man" theory. The best we can do is show them at home how great it is to have two loving parents making it all work for their kids.

Memoir100

How come your showing a lot on technocracy you know the guys taking over the govt didn't you take an oath?

Dalton Elliott

Peter Thiel is not a Christian. He is married to a man. ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭15‬-‭20‬ “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.”

Gary W

Great interview! Go watch Palmer’s interview with Rogan two days ago! He brought the helmet in set and talks through it! VERY COOL!

Michael Brown

Another great interview!!! Keep them coming!!!

CONFINITY

Another CIA asset spewing propaganda, great