Palantir alum and founder
Trae Stephens
Co-founder and Executive Chairman at Anduril Industries
Co-founder and executive chairman of Anduril and a partner at Founders Fund. He was an early Palantir employee.
Stephens studied at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. He worked in computational linguistics for a US intelligence agency, then joined Palantir in 2008. There he led teams on defense and intelligence growth, international expansion and product. He moved to Founders Fund in 2013 and co-founded Anduril in 2017. He also co-founded Valinor Enterprises in 2024.
At Palantir
- Early employee, defense and intelligence growth, international and product
- 2008 to 2013
Career
- 2005: Georgetown SFS graduate
- 2008-2013: Palantir, early employee
- 2013-now: Founders Fund, partner from 2014
- 2017-now: Anduril, co-founder and chairman
- 2024: Co-founded Valinor Enterprises