About
Palmer Luckey is the founder of Anduril Industries, the defense technology company he co-founded in 2017 to drag the Pentagon's hardware procurement out of the cost-plus dark ages. Born in Long Beach and homeschooled, he started taking community college courses at 14 and built the prototype that became the Oculus Rift in his parents' garage; Facebook acquired Oculus VR for roughly $2 billion in 2014. After being pushed out of Facebook in 2017, Luckey turned to defense and assembled a founding team focused on selling AI-enabled autonomous systems to the U.S. Department of Defense. Anduril is now valued in the tens of billions and supplies sentry towers, counter-drone systems, and underwater autonomous vehicles to U.S. and allied forces.
Previous roles
- Founder, Oculus VR (2012-2017)
- Engineer, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Notable work
- Anduril Industries
- virtual reality
- defense technology
- autonomous systems
- hardware
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