Anduril 正在让现任和前任员工通过要约收购出售股份，该要约收购将这家国防科技公司的估值定为约 900 亿美元。根据彭博社的消息来源，股份价格为每股 94.80 美元，要约收购上限约为 13 亿美元。
Anduril is letting current and former employees sell shares in a tender offer that values the defence tech company at about $90bn. The shares are priced at $94.80 each, and the offer is capped at about $1.3bn, according to Bloomberg’s sources.
彭博社的 Rebecca Torrence、Edward Ludlow、Natasha Mascarenhas 和 Katrina Manson 首次报道了该要约收购，引用了熟悉计划的人士。Anduril 拒绝向彭博社发表评论。随后，它向 CNBC 确认了该要约收购及 900 亿美元的估值。TNW 未能独立核实其他细节。
Rebecca Torrence, Edward Ludlow, Natasha Mascarenhas and Katrina Manson first reported the tender for Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the plans. Anduril declined to comment to Bloomberg. It later confirmed the tender and the $90bn valuation to CNBC. TNW has not independently verified the other details.
该要约收购于 10 月 13 日开放，将于 11 月 9 日截止，彭博社的一位消息来源称。这是首次有 16 个国家的员工可以参与。此前的要约收购仅限于美国、英国和澳大利亚的员工。员工出售现有股份，Anduril 仍保持私有。
Open in 16 countries The offer opened on 13 October and closes on 9 November, one of Bloomberg’s sources said. For the first time, employees in 16 countries can take part. Earlier tenders took in only staff in the US, the UK and Australia. Employees sell existing shares, and Anduril stays private.
今年 5 月，由 Thrive Capital 和 Andreessen Horowitz 领投的 50 亿美元融资轮次将 Anduril 的估值翻倍至 610 亿美元。根据彭博社的报道，该公司去年实现收入 22 亿美元。美国国防部是其最大客户之一。
In May, a $5bn round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz doubled Anduril’s valuation to $61bn. The company made $2.2bn in revenue last year, according to Bloomberg. The US Defense Department is among its largest customers.
彭博社将要约收购描述为那些私有化时间更长的初创公司越来越常见的一种方式，用以向员工提供现金。ElevenLabs 也在九月以同样的方式出售了股份。
Bloomberg described tenders as an increasingly common way for startups that stay private longer to give workers cash. ElevenLabs sold shares the same way in September.
CEO 布赖恩·施姆普夫表示无急于上市的意愿。布赖恩·施姆普夫在 10 月 15 日接受 CNBC《街头快报》节目采访时表示，该要约收购让 Anduril 能够向员工提供现金，而无需承受股价波动带来的干扰。
No rush to list CEO Brian Schimpf spoke on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street on 15 October. He said the tender lets Anduril give employees cash without the distraction of a moving share price.
“这使我们能够真正专注于我们需要做的事情……即国防生产的巨大、前所未有的提升。” 布赖恩·施姆普夫，Anduril 首席执行官，对 CNBC 表示。他在 7 月告诉 CNBC，Anduril 并未急于进行 IPO。联合创始人帕尔默·拉基表示，他希望最终让公司上市。
“This allows us to stay really focused on what we need to do… which is a massive, unprecedented ramp in defense production.”Brian Schimpf, Anduril CEO, to CNBC He told CNBC in July that Anduril was not rushing into an IPO. Co-founder Palmer Luckey has said he wants to take the company public eventually.
合同与“子午线”项目 CNBC还就拉基与特朗普政府的关系向施姆普夫提问。10月6日，Anduril宣布获得一份价值高达29亿美元的海军造船厂合同。就在几天前，五角大楼将拉基列入“子午线”项目，该项目也是SpaceX首席执行官埃隆·马斯克所加入的团队。
Contracts and Project Meridian CNBC also asked Schimpf about Luckey’s ties to the Trump administration. On 6 October, Anduril announced a Navy shipyard contract worth up to $2.9bn. A few days earlier, the Pentagon named Luckey to Project Meridian, a group that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk also joined.
这些任命引发了关于那些公司赢得数十亿美元政府合同的高管是否应参与制定国防战略的质疑，CNBC报道称。拉基今年已向共和党候选人和团体捐款超过50万美元。这一数据来自CNBC对联邦选举申报文件的分析。
Those appointments raised questions about whether executives whose companies win billions in government contracts should help shape defence strategy, CNBC reported. Luckey has given more than $500,000 to Republican candidates and groups this year. That figure comes from a CNBC analysis of federal election filings.
施姆普夫表示，Anduril在拜登总统任期内“表现非常出色”，并称自己是终身民主党人。他表示，国防部通过结构化流程评估投标。
Schimpf said Anduril had “done incredibly well” under President Joe Biden, and called himself a lifelong Democrat. He said the Defense Department evaluates bids through a structured process.
“所有事项都经过这些极具竞争性的流程，我们凭借自身优势获胜。”布赖恩·施姆普夫，Anduril首席执行官，对CNBC表示。
“Everything goes through these very competitive processes, and we win based on the merits.”Brian Schimpf, Anduril CEO, to CNBC