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Key Takeaways Peter Goldsborough dropped out of college to start his career in Silicon Valley on Facebook’s AI research team.
He then worked for Anduril as a chief engineer before starting his own company, Rune Technologies.
Rune tackles the problem of military logistics, or ensuring that troops or weapons systems have enough fuel, water and ammunition.
After dropping out of college in his native Austria, Peter Goldsborough became emblematic of a particular Silicon Valley dream: At age 19, he landed a job on Facebook’s AI research team and later became a chief engineer at defense unicorn Anduril.
But less than a decade into his career, he decided to risk it all on a problem most people in his Big Tech bubble had never thought about: how to keep troops, vehicles and weapons supplied with enough fuel, water and ammunition when everything is chaotic.
Goldsborough is now the co-founder and CTO of Rune Technologies, a defense tech startup that raised a $24 million Series A round last year. “We’re a company focused on military logistics technology,” he tells Entrepreneur. “Logistics wins wars. Rune wins logistics.” The company fills a gap he noticed during years of working on cutting-edge defense programs that ignored the supply chain behind the fight.
Peter Goldsborough. Credit: ELITE CORPORATE HEADSHOTS
Dropping out of college
Goldsborough’s story starts in Austria. He taught himself to program as a teenager and briefly attended the Technical University of Munich before deciding he would learn more by building real systems than by sitting in lectures.
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