Oculus

Palmer Luckey: sold Oculus at ~19, sued Facebook and won, now builds for the military

Sam profiles Anduril founder Palmer Luckey: started Oculus around 16-17, sold it to Facebook for ~$1B, was fired (he claims for liking Trump), sued Facebook for hundreds of millions and won, then built a defense-tech company in Orange County making border-surveillance hardware.

“So basically it started by the guy named Palmer Luckey. And the reason why this is interesting is Palmer Luckey started Oculus when he was like 16 or 17, and then he sold it to Facebook for some, what, like a billion dollars, just like a ton. And it's interesting because Palmer Luckey is very controversial. So he's a big supporter of Donald Trump, which is very atypical in Silicon Valley. He was fired from Facebook and a lot of people, or he was the one who said he thinks he was fired because he liked Trump., and he sued Facebook for hundreds of millions and won.”

Buy 10 Oculus Quests and host a recurring VR poker home game

Frustrated by the logistics of an in-person poker night, Shaan and his co-founder bought 10 Oculus Quest headsets to mail to friends so they can meet every Thursday in PokerStars' VR app, picking up cards and tossing chips from their own couches.

“our solution was let's buy 10 of these Oculus Quests. Let's send it to our friends. And, you know, Thursday nights we're gonna get together in, uh, they have PokerStars has made a VR app. We'll get together. I've seen this. We'll get together at a poker, poker table.”

Steal thisUse VR headsets to turn a hard-to-schedule in-person ritual into a recurring remote one.