#245 Trae Stephens - Inside Anduril’s AI Superweapons: Eagle Eye Helmet and Autonomous Tech

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan Show

Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 147 minutes

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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. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: Buy PSYOP Now - ⁠https://psyopshow.com⁠ ⁠https://tryarmra.com/srs⁠ ⁠https://aura.com/srs⁠ ⁠https://betterhelp.com/srs⁠ This episode is sponsored. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/srs and get on your way to being your best self. ⁠https://bubsnaturals.com⁠ – USE CODE SHAWN ⁠https://bunkr.life⁠ – USE CODE SRS Go to ⁠https://bunkr.life/SRS⁠ and use code “SRS” to get 25% off your family plan. ⁠https://shawnlikesgold.com⁠ ⁠https://moinkbox.com/srs⁠ ⁠https://mypatriotsupply.com/srs⁠ ⁠https://patriotmobile.com/srs⁠ ⁠https://prizepicks.onelink.me/lmeo/srs⁠ ⁠https://rocketmoney.com/srs⁠ ⁠https://ROKA.com⁠ – USE CODE SRS ⁠https://shopify.com/srs⁠ ⁠https://USCCA.com/srs Trae Stephens Links: X - https://x.com/traestephens LI - https://www.linkedin.com/in/trae-stephens-485a811 IG - https://www.instagram.com/trae.stephens Founders Fund - https://foundersfund.com/team/trae-stephens Anduril Industries - https://www.anduril.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sean has had some good ideas over the years.
0:05.0	But using Canva was a really good one.
0:08.0	Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.
0:13.0	They looked good.
0:15.0	Really, really good.
0:17.0	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.
0:23.6	Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.
0:26.6	Thanks, Canva.
0:33.6	Trey Stevens, welcome to the show, man.
0:37.7	Man, it's great to be here.
0:38.7	Thanks for bringing me out.
0:40.6	I've been pumped about this.
0:42.7	I love everything that's going on with Anderall.
0:46.4	The Palmer episode was fascinating.
0:49.6	What a cool dude to be around.
0:52.6	And so, yeah, we've been dying to get you in the studio. And it's been almost a year, I think, since Palmer's been on. So I'd love to get some updates. And what I really want to do is life story on you, get into everything that, you know, childhood, how you got into tech, all that stuff, and then we'll end with everything
1:11.6	that's going on in Andurall. Sounds good. Let's do it. Perfect. All right. Everybody starts
1:17.7	with an introduction here. Trey Stevens, co-founder and executive chairman of Anderural Industries,
1:25.4	a defense tech powerhouse that's redefining
1:28.1	national security with AI in autonomy.
1:31.1	A partner at Founders Fund.
1:33.1	You've backed game changers in government and defense tech since 2014, co-founder of Seoul
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