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From $19M to $1.5M, here’s how much Anduril pays top execs like Palmer Luckey in cash and stock
Beyond patriotism, there’s another huge reason to join a defense startup: it pays really, really well.
Thanks to The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA), we can see the total compensation that defense tech startup Anduril, valued at$14 billion valuation, pays its top employees. “The reporting requirements behind these numbers are based on rules designedfor publicly traded defense companies and don’t account for the complexities of startup equity compensation,” the spokesperson told TechCrunch, adding that portions of these reported compensations include “the total value of multi-year equity grants that vest over four or five years and remain illiquid until an IPO.” But after two decades there, he packed up and became senior vice president at Anduril in December 2022, where he’s focused on “building large scale distributed systems capabilities,” according to his LinkedIn.
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