This episode is sponsored by Northern Trust Wealth Management.

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What is it about an entrepreneur's childhood that helped fuel their entrepreneurial spirit?

What are entrepreneurs doing to cultivate the spirit in their own children and build a legacy beyond their business?

Tune in each month to the Road to Why podcast by the Northern Trust Institute,

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Hey, What's News listeners. It's Sunday, March 16th. I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal.

This is What's News Sunday, the show where we

tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news by reaching out to our

colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world. This week,

we're bringing you an episode of our sister podcast Bold Names featuring Palmer Lucky,

veteran entrepreneur and founder of weapons manufacturer Andrill.

During President Trump's first run for the White House, Lucky was part of a minority in the tech

sector that supported him.

Now he's wielding his influence to remake the government's approach to national security.

On bold names, host Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to CEOs and business leaders to take you inside the decisions being made in C-suite and beyond.

Tim is here with me now.

Tim, what makes Lucky such a unique voice in this moment?

He's one of the perhaps brightest examples of a new wave of entrepreneurs out there who in a lot of ways are abandoning

what has made Silicon Valley so powerful, whether it's personal gadgets or ad tech and pouring

themselves into super hard and sometimes controversial science and engineering. Lucky is working on

...