📰 War Goes Brrr: Silicon Valley Now Makes the Shells

First he sold grenades to rebels. Now he’s automating the artillery industry — with VC backing, robots, and a startup named Union.

💭 “We’re running out of everything that goes boom.”

— Joe Musselman, Union chairman and venture capitalist

📋 From Arms Dealer to Defense Founder:
– Will Somerindyke, the ex-CEO of weapons broker Regulus Global, now runs Union, a startup modernizing shell production with Tesla-style robotics.
– Union's first customer? Regulus — the company he still chairs.
– Their $225M artillery contract is already signed, while investors pour hundreds of millions into the new venture.

📊 Welcome to the WarTech Gold Rush:
– Union raised $50M in seed money, with Series A reportedly oversubscribed.
– They plan to build 9 million shells per year by 2030 — $3.5B in revenue if it works.
– They’ve poached engineers from SpaceX, Anduril, Tesla — and call it “critical national infrastructure.”

💼 Who’s Watching the Gunsmiths?
– Somerindyke is still in arbitration over a $1.7B shell deal with Ukraine.
– His venture fund is investing in Union and incubating it.

– “We’ve set up parameters to avoid conflict of interest,”

he says — while sitting on both sides of the table.

🤔 If America’s military-industrial complex just got a WeWork rebrand, who’s the client — the Pentagon, or the pitch deck?

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