Rob Slaughter

Built for the mission. Built for speed. Defense Unicorns is thrilled to announce our partnership with @spiremotorsport and @Mc_Driver for the NASCAR Cup Series inaugural visit to the streets of Naval Base Coronado in San Diego. "Defense Unicorns was built by veterans for the mission, and sponsoring Michael McDowell in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Naval Base Coronado is our way of showing up for the people who make that mission possible and saying thank you." — @RobCSlaughter Watch the car reveal. 👇 See you at the track. 🦄🔥

From intern to billionaire, leaving California for Texas, homeschooling, mass deportations and feminism, I sat down with @JTLonsdale and Tayler Lonsdale for a wide-ranging conversation. 0:00 – Introduction 1:49 – Journey to Homeschooling 4:11 – Forming a Learning Pod 7:23 – Interning at PayPal 8:30 – Founding Palantir 9:33 – How Joe and Tayler Met 10:54 – Working in China 13:03 – Being an Outspoken GOP Donor 14:21 – Supporting President Trump 15:12 – Speaking Out on X 16:13 – Primary News Sources 16:42 – Creating New Forms of Media 18:00 – Moving Out of California 20:44 – California’s Proposed Billionaire Tax 21:37 – Opinion on Zohran Mamdani 22:25 – Founding Addepar 23:07 – Most Successful Investment 23:49 – Greatest Business Failures 24:15 – The Keys to Success 25:45 – Palmer Luckey 26:53 – Peter Thiel 28:07 – Alex Karp 29:03 – Elon Musk 29:40 – Raising Six Children 31:39 – The Importance of Parenthood 34:05 – Why Today’s Culture Is Anti-Family 37:04 – Opinion on Feminism 37:49 – Creation of the University of Austin (UATX) 40:11 – Left-Wing Political Violence 41:03 – Response to UATX 42:48 – 10-Year Vision for UATX 43:15 – Importance of Value-Laden Education 45:08 – Would You Rather Questions 47:45 – Believable Conspiracy Theory 49:12 – Should Palantir Continue to Work with ICE 50:02 – Opinion on Mass Deportations 50:35 – A Non-Guilty Splurge 52:22 – Workout Routine 52:31 – A Hill Willing to Die On 53:33 – Is Gentle Parenting Good 56:40 – Virtue-Signaling Billionaires 58:36 – Most Luxurious Date 59:06 – What Keeps You Up at Night 59:51 – Supporting Political Causes 1:00:55 – Dream Dinner Party Guests

We are officially a UNICORN!! Announcing our $136M Series B raise. $1B+ valuation. Led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. Read the full release 🔗 defenseunicorns.com/defense-unicor… @BadCodeOnly @RobCSlaughter @andrewg_xyz

John: @ssankar told this amazing anecdote about the early days of Palantir. They built a piece of software. He goes to deliver it, and the machine that they tried to install it on had like 1MB of RAM or something, and so it just couldn't run the software. @DefenseUnicorns CEO @RobCSlaughter: "In these military systems, if you want to do a software update, you effectively have to update the hardware." "That's why the hardware is so out of date, because for the new iterations of systems, they've struggled to integrate it. It hasn't worked successfully. So that latest and greatest program that was supposed to deliver, didn't deliver. So you're stuck with the legacy system." "That happens two or three times, and before you know it, people are still stuck on Windows 95."