When Palmer Luckey was raising money for his defense-technology startup Anduril, he got an unusual gift from a venture capitalist interested in investing: a comic book depicting Anduril’s team as superheroes.
The comic book portrayed a “magical chest filled with money with [the firm’s] logo and the money was glowing with a white light,” said Luckey. “The money was the power that was going to help us save the world from foreign military and protect western democracy from being destroyed by Russian and Chinese military.” For Luckey, a science fiction fan whose company develops image recognition software for surveilling large outdoor spaces such as the U.S. border, the firm’s gesture was more than apropos.
