Скачать или смотреть From Flipping iPhones To Selling Oculus For $2 Billion To Facebook | Palmer Luckey — Saam Paar & Sha

When invention meets contrarian instincts, careers can pivot from scrappy side-hustles to industry-shaping companies.

Palmer Luckey's journey: fixing iPhones as a teenager, building Oculus, selling it to Facebook, and launching Anduril. He made tens of thousands from that hustle and used the capital to fund early VR prototypes. On Oculus he talks about conviction and timing, turning down roughly a billion early on, and later hitting earn-out targets that delivered hundreds of millions.

He favored low-cost index funds, bought a marina, trained to fly helicopters the week after his wire cleared, and remained deep into cryptocurrency since 2010. Forums and maker communities were vital; public, long-term contributions reveal sustained competence. He considered reinvention projects like private prison concepts and synthetic food, then pivoted to national security and Anduril to change procurement dynamics.

Anduril answers a broken defense industrial model: build products with company capital first, then sell proven systems to government buyers. Build deeply, test fast with your own resources, and align incentives so success rewards the right outcomes. Media and reputational risk shaped his skepticism. On geopolitics he warns about tactical nuclear use and stresses deterrent capability and resilient supply chains.

Topics:
Anduril defense contracts
Private prison concept
Seasteading and private maritime land rights
Bitcoin and early cryptocurrency culture
Media trust and misinformation
technology and innovation
startups venture capital and entrepreneurship
business and economics
global geopolitics and international relations
politics

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