Silicon Valley tech startup taunts Boston job applicants: Don't work here
The ads are running around Boston and Cambridge near the offices of major tech companies and universities Harvard and MIT, Anduril said.
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The 'Don't work at Anduril' campaign also placed posters in Seattle and Atlanta, advertised across LinkedIn, and
Silicon Valley defense startup Anduril Industries plastered South Station with recruiting ads carrying the slogan "Don't work at Anduril.com.' (Aaron Pressman/Globe Staff)
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Anduril was founded in California in 2017 by a group including Palmer Luckey, who founded Oculus VR and sold it to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014. The name Anduril is a reference to the sword of Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings series by JRR Tolkien.
Formed at the beginning of the first Trump administration when many tech companies opposed working on defense or weapons projects, Anduril has taken the opposite approach.
'You need people like me who are sick in that way and who don't lose any sleep making tools of violence in order to preserve freedom,' Luckey
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