Palmer Luckey
Founder of Oculus VR (sold to Facebook) and Anduril Industries, a defense technology company.
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“he's such at the core of this industry, that he wants to plug these the white spaces he thinks are important.”
Source→“says he plans to stay in California despite the proposed billionaire wealth tax, which he estimates could leave him owing roughly $3 billion on his Anduril stake alone”
Source→“Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S... a hardened laptop designed to withstand the most grueling physical environments and meet the security-conscious needs of the military, government, first responders, and law enforcement.”
Source→“supported by Colossal Biosciences' Ben Lamm and Anduril's Palmer Luckey.”
“emerged from stealth with $200 million from investors including Sequoia, 8VC and Corner Ventures at a $1.2 billion valuation.”
“It's the brainchild of Ben Lamm... and Anduril's Palmer Luckey.”
“Warhound, a developer of genetically engineered military dogs, raised $200 million in seed funding at a $1.2 billion post-money valuation.”
“Warhound, a startup co-founded by Colossal Bioscience's Ben Lamm and Anduril's Palmer Luckey to genetically engineer warfighting dogs, raised $200 million in seed funding.”
Source→“Anduril... just won a Navy contract worth up to $2.9 billion to support Virginia-class submarine production days after Luckey was named to the Pentagon's Project Meridian weapons initiative.”
Source→“Palmer Luckey... His answer: 'I would try to end the tragedy of divorce with oxytocin doping for marriage counseling'”
Source→“It also secured around $120m in debt from Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank.”
“Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank providing $120M in debt to Regent Craft... it may be a signal that Luckey is building Erebor as a strategic lender to dual-use and defense-adjacent hardware companies.”
“Palmer Luckey's side geschäft, which is recreating old consoles... they just put out the Nintendo 64 too. Incredible. Super cool. Wild attention to detail, input lag, and all the other things.”
Source→“The strategic significance of Palmer Luckey — known for defense tech, not fintech — co-founding this company adds an additional, unexplained wrinkle worth watching.”
“Anduril's Palmer Luckey talks AI, nukes and Iran on 'The Axios Show.'”
Source→“A one-year-old digital bank launched by Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel.”
Source→“Jakob Diepenbrock | Hard-tech VC | Leading Discipulus Ventures, which raised $30M debut fund backed by Palmer Luckey and Brian Armstrong”
“New media is unlimited formats, unlimited channels, and the brand is now the person. So it's not like where people talking about like when every Democrat came out and was mad about SpaceX. They weren't. They were mad about Elon because he's a brand.”
Source→“If you watch what Palmer Luckey does or if you watch what Alex Karp does or if you watch what Elon does or you watch what any of the great communicators do, that's what they're doing.”
Source→“Palmer Luckey is one of the most honest real people that there is.”
“Palmer Luckey is one of the most honest, like real people that there is... Palmer is one of the most talented from a like visionary crazy product idea that could actually work... He is also Palmer also knows what he is really good at and what he needs to supplement.”
Source→“Do people want to watch the likes of Sam Altman, Trae Stephens & Palmer Luckey compete in a party game?”
Source→“He sold Oculus at 21... When he left Facebook, he basically left a place where he noticed that the smartest people in the world were all focused on increasing advertising revenue or basically getting you addicted to mindless entertainment.”
Source→“The first slide on the Anduril pitch deck and our seed investment said, we are going to save the American taxpayer hundreds of billions of dollars a year. And we are going to make hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Source→“Luckey — ever the fundraiser — guided him on the storytelling... Schimpf (Anduril's CEO) pushed him on strategy... Grimm helped him think about how to pitch VCs.”
Source→“Palmer Luckey is a friend of mine and we don't agree on everything, but I do think that we agree on some important aspects of how we need to respond here.”
Source→“Palmer Luckey — Founder of Oculus (sold to Facebook for billions)”
Source→“He created Anduril, the leading, the first kind of significant tech company that was doing defense stuff. It's worth like whatever, a hundred billion dollars.”
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