Facebook Made This 29-Year-Old Rich; War Made Him A Billionaire | Forbes

After being drummed out of Silicon Valley as a Trump-supporting hawk, the onetime VR wunderkind Palmer Luckey is feeling vindicated. His $8 billion defense tech startup, Anduril, is arming Ukraine and building the weapons of the future-before the Pentagon even knows it wants them.
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[@JujuGurgel]

You know a person is passionate about something when they can articulate it so well without even having to think about what they are going to say. It's engraved in their brain.

[@SilentKnight43]

Well-stated.

[@MannyTheSaxCat]

also the lack of corporate BS and meaningless jargon

[@pistolen87]

No cognitive dissonance

[@pawel8365]

It's called having a car salesman attitude. Gullible fools will listen to charlatans sell them anything.

[@beargrylles2185]

This guy is literally living in the future wearing a Hawaiian shirt yet speaking total sense that anybody in power or defence should listen to.

[@AmazingJayB51]

He says similar things as General McMaster said on Rogen.

[@danielcohenemail]

are u actually bear from the survivor show?

[@chadconnolly1138]

Hawaiian shirt is key

[@johngo9541]

Best comment I’ve ready today

[@MrRatingz]

Speaking the 1000% truth.

[@BASE5NYC]

This guy's amazing. He made enough cash on Oculus to sit back & do nothing but have fun for the rest of his life but he puts all his time into one of the best, smartest & most forward thinking military contractors in America... And isn't screwing the tax payer by doing it.

[@faroukhalbas1212]

when you have that much money, you get bored you know

[@thescribe3184]

Creating war machines ain't it.

[@Redditor6079]

@@thescribe3184 Believe it or not bud, bad people exist in the world. They're not going away just because you shut your eyes and plug your ears. Shocker I know.

[@Redditor6079]

The fact that he's very aware of how to blatantly rip off the taxpayers but decides not to do it says a lot about his character.

[@XIXCentury]

I LOVE WARFARE I LOVE MAKING MONEY FROM BOMBING CHILDREN IN THE MIDDLE EAST -you, please stop commenting

[@trexaz19]

It seems like "building the tools to make warfare unthinkable" has been the inspiration for some of the deadliest weapons ever deployed, it always becomes thinkable

[@khalshubh]

People are and will always be filled with hypocrisy.

[@WakeEternal]

I agree, as this "ideal" assumes national leaders or military advisors are not megalomaniacs and would always make calculated decisions based on well-informed consideration of odds and the cost of lives and resources.

[@confusedcaveman5678]

It's true tho. A lot of nations in the world would be having a war at this moment if nuclear weapons didn't exist.

[@somethinganything4864]

technology always evolves and improves it is inevitable

[@DeusGladiorum]

​@@confusedcaveman5678 Yes, but if (or when) they are used again, I'm not certain that the wars they prevented will still have been worth it.

[@chuckyh880]

This guy is clearly really smart

[@shanebluebutterfly]

He gets zero bitches

[@xpengfangirl7942]

exactly, china and russia will buy

[@nejc8799]

Was just about to say that

[@vishal.chauhans]

Yeah, he knows what's he doing

[@MichaelBohemian]

I mean all a smart person really needs is one opportunity to make enough money to fund the rest of your intelligence. Having the opportunity have a safe space to think of ideas and means and connection to create and execute and have ideas funded is a rare opportunity in itself let alone twice. It wasn't him alone but he's got the baton now.

[@yashaswanirajwansh7319]

He sold oculus to Facebook for 2billion at the age of 21

[@ZoongoZang]

THE ANTI CHRIST

[@sithbk0075]

Palmer gets it. He’s doing things that many of US contractors should be doing. He’s probably the only contract that doesn’t go for big money first but showcase his products as the best. His mindset is on point and I like him and where he’s headed.

[@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409]

The problem is now instead of just fighting contractors he is also fighting politicians because they want their cut from overblown projects aswell.

[@HoloScope]

@@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 yep

[@tnganthavee100]

@@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 Oh yeah... This comment right here.

[@manchuratt8900]

Actually they do the same thing. They got money to build products for SOCOM earlier this year. So what this Palmer is saying contradicts with the actions Anduril is taking. I can understand, it's easy to say you are going to put a billion of your own on the line, but that is just risky. Imagine building a product that doesn't sell. The company might go bankrupt after 1 or 2 products; defense products are a huge time and money investment.

[@ncrujaki259]

@@manchuratt8900 exactly

[@carljefferygivings799]

This guy is so smooth, he discourage his competition. Yet at the same time he says we need more people like him. Damn, he's good. Don't believe me, listen to him again. Have a good one everybody.

[@tnganthavee100]

I really the way he speaks... He doesn't speak like a snob, rather he speaks speaks in a VERY logical, simple, concise and enthuastic manner.

[@nixtoshi]

He is extremely good with words, but I don't think Anduril is a net good company for humanity. Talent should be working on common enemies that kill way more people and pose much bigger threats than wars, like microbes. COVID killed more people than any war or armed conflict since WW2. If humanity simply loses fear to guns and weapons, it will have no power to control anyone. His whole speech is based on fear. The US as-is is basically unrivaled in terms of military power, and even if it stopped funding its military I believe regular people would simply not comply with whatever power is trying to take over through force. I also believe that as the guns pile up, it's our ultimate destiny to go extinct as a species, if our species is characterized as aggressive to its own kind, or with a tendency to take over each other through force whenever it can. The same way Tasmania's demons are going extinct because they fight too much. If we don't change that, no amount of weapons will stop us from eventual self destruction, will we be counting death stars as deterrents? Childish.

[@farzana6676]

@@nixtoshi Nobody is for weapons proliferation but we also cannot be naive to think we live in a utopian World where sophisticated bad faith actors do not exist. China is a near peer adversary which has total disregard for fundamental values like free speech, free expression, suffrage, judicial independence, free political environment.

[@JehnomInfo]

His story telling skills when mixed up with his analytics is incredible...💯🤩

[@chrisheist652]

You're right, his manipulation skills are top of the line.

[@Zeitlos4ever]

@@chrisheist652 ?

[@chrisheist652]

@@Zeitlos4ever Palmer is a weapons salesman, and he spun it like he's a hero. This evil industry is looking to convert tech geniuses away from their usual anti-war mentality, so he's one of their main pitch-men for making young entrepreneurs think that the war business ain't so bad after all, when it totally is. Don't cooperate with the empire. No matter how much better than Lockheed or Raytheon this place may be, it's still partcipating with and helping the giant machine that turns human beings into ground beef for cash.

[@nixtoshi]

I agree that his story telling is insane, I think at least 3 standard deviations above average, which combined with his technical talent makes him like Steve Jobs AND Wozniak combined in one person. He is potentially selling us on machines designed to kill humans, yet we buy it, and we believe that he is saving the world and creating global peace, seems unintuitive, and I'm not sure if making increasingly more powerful and destructive weapons as a deterrent is a good thing for humanity, specially when people that seem emotionally unstable are given the keys to nuclear bombs. The US isn't only building a defensive military force which would be in line with the narrative of peace keeping, but it's actually armed with weapons of mass destruction that can't serve as part of a defense system, only as counter attack and attack weapons. I don't think that war deserves much funding at all, I would only protect against a potential extraterrestrial invasion. After all, we are all in this together and have way worse enemies than each other, like microbes, the environment, etc. COVID killed more people that all wars since WW2

[@josephpadula2283]

Thanks Utopian! I’m glad Ukraine spent a little money on War products. They are coming in handy… For every useful idiot’s peace dream there is a Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, idi Amin etc and now Putin on a lower tier.

[@JigilJigil]

If they succeed and achieve their goal of making 10s of billions a year, we will certianly witness a sizable surge of similar new companies emergence, it will undermine dominance of few legacy defense contractors and for sure beginning of a new defense industry era.

[@technicolourdream]

That is most certainly correct and will be a huge benefit for society. This kind of thing mixed with the movement of decentralisation from the crypto world are going to solve a lot of our problems if we can pull it off. Fingers crossed!

[@ahmedo7875]

But why is this beneficial? Surely we want less wars

[@tylerwellick1623]

@@ahmedo7875 "If you want peace prepare for war"

[@ahmedo7875]

@@tylerwellick1623 hm I guess true but I think nuclear only prevents that tbh, no other weapon at this point has that same fear/threat most wars are started today with nuclear nations vs non nuclear or non nuclear vs non nuclear

[@adamn9450]

Great space to disrupt. MIC

[@bb5242]

It's impressive. Hiram Maxim said the same thing about his invention: That it would make war so costly to human life as to insure peace.

[@BaNuj]

ensure or insure? im not native, i cannot understand your sentence meaning xD

[@j4genius961]

@@BaNuj Insure, a synonym would be guarentee ( ...life as to guarentee peace )

[@antennawilde]

Imagine what all these genius level minds could be doing for the planet instead of making weapons for 'peace'. There is no doubt in my mind that the human race will destroy itself, and very soon indeed. Look at the gain of function research that created covid, or the GMO seeds that are pollinating and destroying natural strains of food. These are just a small taste of what science and technology are bringing to the world.

[@canobeansyummers1667]

@@j4genius961 No, you're thinking of ensure. Insure is not synonymous with guarantee. Ensure and insure and two different words.

[@feels6233]

That’s one of the most naive things I’ve heard in a while - but not surprised considering you don’t know the difference between insurance and assurance - insure and ensure.

[@tolitsaso]

This is how government contracts should be. No taxpayer money goes to waste

[@TheIRSneedsme]

No taxpayer money should go to waste funding the us military

[@EngineerFormidable]

@@TheIRSneedsme lol might as well kiss the super power status goodbye

[@simpmaster7995]

@@TheIRSneedsme Mexican.

[@orkkojit]

@@TheIRSneedsme Beijing, is that you ?

[@dylanc1925]

No company will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build jets, planes and tanks without a commitment. The military is their only customer. If the govt decides not to proceed with the product it's not like they can just sell it to consumers....

[@jivillain]

Smart guy but I can’t believe he’s only 29

[@randomworld4662]

He seem 37

[@Freddiewiththevests]

Exactly. Too many Marlboro 100s 🚬

[@farzana6676]

Loool, he is living his best life.

[@theaskingman]

Business owner/start up founder has large stress to overcome unthinkable/unpredictable roadblock. They dont do things the usual way. I think that also affecting their mental health and rest time which makes them look older than it should be.

[@aesyamazeli8804]

He probably works 24/7, unlike these pretend 'hustlers' and 'entrepreneurs'.

[@sexykjetil]

If more companies where to do this, how are Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin supposed to charge billions for nothing? This is complicating corruption within defence department, this poor billionaires are depending on your taxpayer dollars!

[@manneredcheetah6665]

this dude could become a target if he keeps on going. lets hope his drone army keeps him safe

[@WJWeber]

I promise you this company is meaningless compared to the other companies in terms of defense. I do think he is cool for being so candid. Like others he still wants the taxpayers money which is fine. Also we are ahead of China still in ai. All I know is some have better hypersonic missiles. I still question how his company is reducing conflict. The only potential war that is meaningful for the us is Taiwan. Outside of that ehhh. Ai is something we must put money into so we don’t get passed by China in the next 5 years.

[@dekev7503]

This is not always practical because you only get payed if your stuff worked, irrespective of the fact that you have to buy equipment, pay engineers, etc. As an Engineer, most of your projects will either fail or become obsolete by the time they're ready.

[@honkhonk8009]

@@manneredcheetah6665 hes gonna be a target for sure. If Boeing and Lockheed sees their bottom line be threatened, their gonna hire Forbes, Washington Post, Huffington Post, and Business Insider to mass produce smear peaces and slander articles, like they have done multiple times with "inconvenient actors". BMW has done the same with Tesla recently. Same with Mercedes. This isnt just American defence companies, this is the corporate world in general.

[@chrisheist652]

To be fair to those evil companies, their products kill thousands of people per year, for lots of cash. And Palmer wants to be one of them. It's a good business model, ending the world.

[@loganfitzpatrick3333]

Facebook bought his 1st company OculusVR for $2B. Pretty sure he was a billionaire before war. To Palmer's credit, he has started 2 unicorns. That is amazing.

[@Fattimithy]

its unlikely he owned the whole thing personally. Probably VC backed to get to a 2bn mcap.

[@loganfitzpatrick3333]

@@Fattimithy He definitely didn't own the whole company and they raised plenty of VC cash. I'm pretty sure Palmer was smart enough to keep the majority which would've been over/close to $1B after the sale.

[@ErikPukinskis]

@@loganfitzpatrick3333 Doubtful. He wasn't the only founder, and would've been diluted many times. 50%+ founders at that scale are extremely rare. The only one I can think of is Zuckerberg.

[@ashvinnihalani]

@@ErikPukinskis to clarify Zuckerberg doesn’t own fifty percent of the equity shares he only owns ~12% of facebooks equity. It’s just that the shares he owns have outsized voting right. If Facebook was bought out tomorrow he would only get 12% but he would control the decision of whether or not to get bought out

[@AyeBeeG]

Correcting the title like your his accountant?

[@radeksparowski7174]

underwater drones not only for war but also for archaeological research and mining, moving us into space requires lots of ressources, also lidar and groundpenetrating radars to check what is underneath.... there is so much stuff to be found if you dug in the right places.....

[@adamn9450]

“Build the tools that make war Unthinkable” I like that. Let’s do it!

[@mhjunky4278]

Need to be said more! "build stuff that can't be challenged" can be applied on everything

[@deep.space.12]

It's called nukes. We already have those.

[@harold7142]

Maxim, Browning, Manhattan project all made this claim

[@honkhonk8009]

@@deep.space.12 Pretty sure Al-Qaeda really cared about our Nukes when they comitted the largest massacre of American civillians since the 1800's. The truth is the fact that Western countries in Europe and North America have to spend money on military whether they like it or not. As Ukraine and Hong Kong shows us, Authoritarian regimes do not care about peace sustained by economic ties. Theres a tipping point where their ego surpasses their need for economy, and produces the next putin.

[@chrisheist652]

Don't be a sucker, that's what they all say. They all call themselves 'defense' companies, but we know what they are.

[@blackmarlin3166]

Im 28 and he looks like he could be my dad

[@rachelkateve1397]

Generics matters 😂 you might grow older than him but in his old age he could be looking very young .

[@arcticredpanda4598]

your mom also thinks he could be your dad

[@nicholasmaravelias1532]

I've worked at Anduril for almost two years and it's the best company I've ever been with 🙌 they're doing great things for our country 🤙

[@testtube9423]

All of this is going to come home and be used on the american people you better believe it.

[@ryanowen3026]

Why you don’t work anymore?

[@iam_kxylee]

I want to work there 😂😅😂😅

[@nukezat]

Military might is the main cornerstone of US supremacy, if this guy manages to change the paradigm of defense contracting and cuts the bloat that robs from education and infrastructure spending, may he become rich and successful AF

[@brianmorais]

Extremely well said!

[@m.othegreat5420]

He is rich and successful af to be honest

[@xk4l1br3]

I don’t live in the US but I live in an allied country. Defence systems like this will win future wars. The idea that a country has defensive capabilities so strong that it’s a mute point to even bother attacking them is what I wanna see. We don’t need faster Tomahawk missiles. We need systems that can destroy them faster.

[@aijunky]

Yeah...Until the trolls come around and start being entitled to all his money like he picked it off the floor.. Ill never understand the mindset of everyone who hate on legitimate billionaires for nothing. Like they earned it. It wasn't handed over to them. (Pardon my rant) Well said man. May he become even more rich and successful. He deserves it.

[@___Truth___]

@@m.othegreat5420 To you he is, to himself he hasn't reached his goals yet. Clearly, when most billionaires become billionaires they realize that sitting on their hands in the Virgin Islands gets boring, they get back to being active about something their passionate about or contribute more to what made them successful in the first place.

[@teddymoon3744]

every biz is tough. nothing is easy. hardwork and balls

[@farzana6676]

100% hard work, good decision making and a little luck.

[@maknavickas]

Regulation and administration can be pretty easy.

[@dylansmith6768]

This is what we need.

[@fongponto]

You already have it

[@andrewz4313]

This guy is brilliant. Crazy smart and well spoken. Seems humble too.

[@Retr0_Jm]

Basically, He is Tony Stark without the suit. (yet)

[@simontide6780]

Clearly US military industrial Complex is not big fan of getting competition in their getting rich from wars market.

[@southstar9931]

How did you conclude this is clear?

[@emani2704]

This guy escalated quickly. Making game playing device to making war machines.

[@IbHustln]

Living in his own little fantasy world that is spilling into the real world, sounds good to me...

[@olternaut]

He's adapted and evolved.

[@netaverse7694]

Thanks for your service

[@arpitpatel7065]

never seen a founder so passionate🤯. Blown away!

[@RevantuZ]

I'm blown away to see Palmer Luckey doing this. I followed him a bit during the early Oculus days and until it got sold to Facebook, at which point I really thought he was just going to fade into the sidelines of history, but wow. Respect to this man, this shows that he really does have an inner drive to keep doing incredible things, and not just for money.

[@AlexZeBeast]

100%

[@southstar9931]

This is just an escalation of the fact that modern warfare is scientist vs scientist more than foot soldier vs foot soldier

[@joeyglasser2574]

Well said

[@Mor4me]

I don’t agree with the war machine I do appreciate his work ethic ✌🏽

[@LolLol-zp4jy]

The combined military power of democratic nations must be considerable larger than communist and authoritarian nations like russia and china in order to maintain the individual human freedom

[@pranav8423]

If you don't make it then someone else will, so better be ahead of your counterparts

[@coin5207]

@@pranav8423 This line of thinking is basically one of the fundamental causes of unnecessary violence. When you act on assumptions you make you _still_ need to take into consideration that your (pre-emptive) actions might very well be what are materializing the outcome you're trying to prevent. What do you think countries like China are thinking when they see the US spending 700 billion on their military? Is it not logical for them to feel threatened and as a result step up their defense game as well? And then in turn the US will take this as a reason to spend _even more_ on defense as China is clearly a threat, and so on. If no one breaks the cycle, it will spinn out of control. We have seen this before. "Oh I thought they would make these weapons if we didn't do it first" "Oh I thought he had a gun so I shot him" "Oh we thought they had WMD so we _had_ to invade" And that's all not even mentioned the significant profit US is making by leasing/selling their old weapons etc.

[@checkdestroy]

@@coin5207 I don't think the rhetoric matters so much. Behind Facebook's "we want to connect humanity and build a better world" and this guy's "we want to build weapons to prevent war" is purely self serving rhetoric to expand their own business empire. It's profit and power at the end of the day, and rationalizations are just that, rationalizations to make themselves or their employees feel better about a disgusting business mission.

[@ENGCSHemangVerma]

@@coin5207 "When you act on assumptions you make you still need to take into consideration that your (pre-emptive) actions might very well be what are materializing the outcome you're trying to prevent." My country went against this notion, and it still backfired on us. Our Chinese enemies developed nuclear arms, hence forcing us to do the same. Your line of thinking is wrong.

[@sauxybanana2332]

We need more man like him and more companies like his. Respect earned.

[@pitech4446]

Exactly what I was thinking. Other defense contractors companies has a lot of friends in the government to win those contracts...they mostly do for the money not to build up the country. USA is the most corrupt country ever, they just hide it behind a suit

[@BraveAbandon]

More people like him, who got the public to crowdfund an innovative technology intended to be affordable and open for all to develop for it freely, then turn his back on those people who made it possible, and sell it off to a heartless and borderline criminal megacorp who spies on their members, sells their behavioral data, and manipulates them, and puts the technology behind their company gates. Yep. Definitely need more immoral people like him to choose his selfish greed over the good and advancement of all humanity. Actions speak louder than words.

[@pitech4446]

@@nightmark2120 you got greedy politician and execs that leech on taxpayer money...like i said USA the most corrupted country, they hide it behind a suit

[@tnganthavee100]

I agree.. The way he operates is like a Fast Moving Consumer Company (FMCG) rather than those big B2B companies (e.g. Lockheed, Boeing and etc).

[@chrisheist652]

Lockheed and Raytheon may be far worse, but any of these companies that are bringing about the downfall of human society should be condemned.

[@Brokeloco]

Fuckin Tony Starks over here lol

[@dontknow2]

The defense industry is about keeping people employed not about efficacy.

[@tc9435]

Wow, extremely well spoken

[@CheaperEngineer]

Luckey's perspective on cost-plus programs will change when Customers start changing key requirements on Anduril's production contracts. Legacy contractors prefer cost-plus because they understand the Customer's habit of requirements creep from painful experience.

[@yusufibrahim7233]

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[@AbubakaCalo]

Yes, you can start an investment, There are many reasons to invest in Bitcoin after understanding the market and risks.

[@AbubakaCalo]

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[@AbubakaCalo]

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[@AbubakaCalo]

He will guide you through the process of investing

[@rabiyuaudu1328]

Investing in Bitcoin is the number one thing one should be doing right now, although there are lots of risks the best way to invest is through cryptocurrency and Forex.

[@chandlerangol6718]

It’s exciting to be witness to this renaissance of thought combined with rapid technological advancement. For the main objective of his company to be the avoidance of war to even enter our collective mental space, just goes to show his level of awareness. I truly feel like we are part of a huge societal change as more people like him continue to exceed expectation.

[@bigjoocy1185]

This guy is amazing and so very propelled by the right mindset and ideology, alot of Americans would benefit from watching this video

[@navy_brat]

War does not determines who is right, it only determines who is left!

[@oneminuteenglishlesson7891]

This man is an inspiration to young inventors. I am motivated just from listening to him!

[@cnaccio]

The clarity of his thinking is inspiring. Makes me want to drop what I’m doing and join this company.

[@diagorasofmel0s]

and kill people?

[@LondonReps]

Me too!

[@chrisheist652]

Maybe you should think about what you're doing and not join the empire.

[@curious_one1156]

Defence tech. I dont know. CIA will start monitoring you thereafter. Plus, lots of work. Better just stick to fintech.

[@scholaroftheworldalternatehist]

You can be a wage slave at countless other companies, why follow this guy?

[@BeanTownBruce]

This is how paradigms are smashed! This message is like music to my ears! Palmers living a no lid life. :)

[@joshmason2007]

Always look at the clothes, the chilled but insanely rich and smart is the go to aesthetic 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@netaverse7694]

About time!

[@vicx05]

Great strategy, build the best tech not to win the next war, but to prevent it from ever happening, almost like a nuclear deterrent, it's ironically a humanitarian approach.

[@sslaia]

Let's hope he's right. Elizabeth Holms and others have successfully used similar vocabulary and applied the principle of "fake it until you make it"

[@chrisheist652]

If he's right, the damage he does to this world is immense. At least Elizabeth Holmes as a fraud was not capable of building tech that may end human civilization.

[@barbarosozturk]

What a genius. Doing impactful work while getting attached by the VCs left and right.

[@SicMundusss]

OOOMG this guy! It's people like this that make me wish I were American. The vision is super clear. I would give ANYTHING to work in such a company.

[@MaraldBes]

As a first-day oculus user, I am thankful for palmer for reviving the VR industry. Interesting and refreshing to see his approach to this market. I'm not for weapons at all and wish there were fewer of them in the world, but technology does exist and will be used and misused as a consequence. No doubt that Luckey is probably making some of the best military techs in the world right now, but is still very aware of his competitors abroad. If he is being the reason we (as Nato's partner) can have an edge that ensures a more peaceful future, I'm all for it.

[@farzana6676]

Nobody is for weapons but we also cannot be naive to think we live in a utopian World where bad actors do not exist. Too many Europeans and some Americans make this mistake.

[@MaraldBes]

@@farzana6676 I do not believe such an utopian world exists. And weapons will be needed. But I also think we don't need any nuclear weapons, cluster bombs and toxics etc etc. And most certainly not readily available firearms (automatic or normal) for the general public, what many (republican) Americans think is the solution.

[@farzana6676]

@@MaraldBes Our firearms are our God given right. When seconds matter, the police are only minutes away.

[@MaraldBes]

@@farzana6676 not god given, but amended to the by people who like guns. And maybe police are minutes away but still does most of Asia, Australia and Europe where ppl don’t carry their own guns have just a fraction of deaths caused by firearms compare this to the USA, where a bullet is probably your highest chance to die any day.

[@farzana6676]

@@MaraldBes Yes people who like guns = majority of Americans 🇺🇸 America also has the highest probability of chance of protecting yourself with a gun.

[@SupremeSanda]

I know this guy! From video game device to killing machine, that's wild!

[@honkhonk8009]

Killing machines? He makes drones, and equipment to fight against drone swarm attacks. Look at how Saudi Arabian oil facilities were hit by $50 drones with an IED strapped to them. Its important to manufacture this stuff in as cheap a manner of possible if we want to compete with China. Production and resource management wins wars. its how we won WW2. China took that production capacity away, so we gotta improvize.

[@DamienOMalley]

@supremesanda yay?

[@travishancock2302]

Well done man, I wish we had a bunch of people like him that owned and ran these types of companies instead of the corrupt and dirty ones that run our MIC

[@ryanmckenna2047]

What fantastic advice!

[@eccen3ricbeats86]

I'm about to turn 18 and I've been thinking about going into this space, I've been plotting and doing my research for years thinking about how to solve the insecurity problem in Nigeria and Africa at large. The autonomous drone could be a game-changer, from collecting data, looking at satellite images, and talking to kidnap victims and people from terrorized communities I've been able to pinpoint some bandits camps, most of them are deep in the forest (they kidnap people on the high way and disappear into thick forests, most of the victims recalled walking for hours on end and sometimes finding themselves in different states), the bandits and terrorist know the ins and outs of the forests, that's their greatest advantage. At this point, it's either the military knows where they are and are unable to handle it or they know and are just letting it slide. either way, something needs to be done.

[@ydyd4410]

It seems like in many cases militaries from the US and EU are letting it slide and making profit that way.

[@olanrewajudaniel7978]

Bro I wish you luck man.. go for it

[@lgadrian7989]

Be safe

[@sarcasmbanega5997]

There is no space dude.

[@mudimabiriani6467]

Do it 🚀🚀🚀

[@bishnupandey829]

I am here at 30, still searching for Job. Oh God, forgive me.

[@Brian-cj4bj]

So far, I like this guy. Kudos and keep up the good work! He is operating from great first principle and philosophy.

[@lalotz]

Unlike you right

[@tirthb]

Nice to see hope! Great guy.

[@shanefleming4488]

Did anyone else notice that they primarily had empty pallets on their pallet racks and not much else...?

[@Matt-fq6ly]

Another Theranos scam type of thing? lol

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

Glad to know that not only me think he seem fishy. The way he speak. Maybe i am wrong and he is really good.... but it seems fishy to me.

[@honkhonk8009]

@@Matt-fq6ly Nah. What he makes has already been deployed, and is in use by multiple countries. Theres nothing unproven about the technology he speaks of. The real benefit of what he proposes, is how cheap it is compared to other alternatives. Better fight a $400 drone, with a $500 drone and a $10k radar system. The alternative is a $20Million CIWS that depletes $70k worth of ammo within seconds, just to shoot down a $400 drone.

[@honkhonk8009]

What do you expect them to put on those pallet racks? Actual product? You realize thats not even a warehouse right?

[@manchuratt8900]

I like the guy but what he said about changing the paradigm is bs. They are following the paradigm what other defense contractors follow: to get funding before a product is ready. Anduril got a contract with SOCOM earlier this year (around January or February) to develop a product. Just goes to show you that you should look at a person's action rather than believe what they say. What he is saying about tech companies refusing to do work with US government is also untrue. Just because you don't hear about it, since it's kept hush hush, doesn't mean it's not happening.

[@etoilegrace6187]

Amazon has NSA surveillance contracts (Dell was runner-up)

[@TalbotHook]

"Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves." Naming your company Anduril shows a *profound ignorance* of Tolkien's books and worldview . . . .

[@rhejamphi]

"trying to build the tools that make warfare unthinkable" very cool guy. Glad he's stepped up to the plate.

[@mandalsalman]

Why I never heard of this genius smart guy?

[@txbre8758]

Because he wants it that way. He’s focused on actual goals instead of bragging

[@Richniques]

Elon Musk of defense. He deeply understands politics and policies. Spot on about the competition. The overspend on things that Might work. Interesting story for sure.

[@poggamus4330]

"SAVING TAXPAYERS MONEY" OOF THATS NOT WHAT ARMS DEALERS LIKE TO HEAR...

[@safetime100]

Very inspiring thank you

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[@stevenlyons1674]

I'm from spain , I have been an investor in the crypto market for over 2 years

[@liberty-matrix]

"I spent 20 years reporting on the outer reaches of empire. Militarized police, suspension of civil liberties, wholesale surveillance, revoking basic rights like due process, militarized drones, it's all coming to a town near you. And that's how empires go down." ~ Chris Hedges

[@chris_d-triple_three]

The writers of Terminator got the name wrong. It’s not Skynet; it’s Anduril.

[@KnaveKaiser]

I'm really surprised he didn't throw the line "to make the world a better place".

[@pamelathompson6783]

Thank you so much for your contribution to our military!

[@chrisheist652]

Read a book.

[@aaronmorgan8354]

"Peace through strength."~ President Ronald Reagan

[@conradjones635]

Dear Forbes Editors, Excellent piece. -Conrad ⚓🇺🇸

[@papishome3394]

its funny that the guy who owns such a complex military tech company that is so close to the us army wears clothes that make him look like he owns a tiki bar

[@hannesRSA]

Dunno.. most of us in tech will treat people in suits with suspicion on their capability.

[@honkhonk8009]

Anyone with suits is to be regarded with suspicion imo. You go to a job to WORK. You got to a job to get the job done. What you wear is meaningless. Especially if a technology company cares about discipline, conformity, or suits, then they are not efficient. They should be caring abotu whats important. Their end product. Wear whats comfortable, and what helps you get your desk job done.

[@cidadaoPPT]

Luckey is just on another level! Mad respect for him!

[@ajshaka3212]

Great stuff. Thanks

[@shaun3133]

You know what keeps people alive? Not invading countries around the world for profit and interest control in countries that the US has no business in. Illegal wars and world policing needs to stop and a growing multipolarity world is certainly a good start.

[@DeathScy7he]

I'm surprised that no one mentioned that the name of his company is reference from Lord Of The Rings and is the name of the sword that Aragorn received which was reforged from the shards of Narsil in Rivendell when he became King.

[@aorusaki]

Based

[@thekickingwolf5115]

Good man! If more billionaires were as patriotic as this man is, we would be in a better place. 🇺🇸

[@sabihatanveer8494]

Warfare unthinkable is apparently a dream come true situation if &when it happens ✌

[@Elliott_Wave]

Well done dude!

[@caine7024]

He uses the words protect and defend a lot. This tech definitely won't be used to kill people, including civilians!

[@jas_bataille]

... I don't get it. He does make defence tech. Hist product are literally only for defence. They're not weapons and wouldn't work as such.

[@maxfacsurg]

American patriot!

[@John-thinks]

Thank you for keeping us safe.

[@rx42711]

It reminds me Mike Howard on Gundam Wings, when he fixed Gundam with hawaiian shirt, easy talk about war & military. .

[@vrgamestudio294]

Huge respect for Palmer Luckey.

[@ronstallworth9421]

He seems honest and transparent compare to other defense contractors.

[@steamerSama]

I'm Indian, but I love this man for some reason. This guy gets it

[@khondamirrakhimov6746]

Dont tell here where you come from, especially India is not something to be proud of. Ok?

[@steamerSama]

@@khondamirrakhimov6746 I never indicated that I was proud to be from India. Nonetheless, why shouldn't Indians be proud?

[@Searchforfulltruth911]

​@@steamerSama he is a racist.

[@bhuvaneshs.k638]

Yeahhh i like him. He's crystal clear and doesn't beat around the bushes

[@carlaldric545]

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[@lindaedi6320]

Ever since I lost my job with the ministry, I have been surviving through my investment with him, am so glad I invested when I did. I’m earring $25k weekly with him

[@lindaedi6320]

Investment is that tiny line that separates the rich from the poor.

[@lindaedi6320]

His successful stories are everywhere

[@levinhuber973]

please I have been hearing about this pomah hectop from my colleagues at work. How do I easily reach out to him

[@jameswest416]

He has really made name for himself,

[@user-gr7li1cg]

Pal Luckey is the futuristic man. Pal is laser focused, the harder Pal Luckey works the luckier he gets.👏

[@amitaryal543]

Give the man a glass of water

[@AlexZeBeast]

Badass. Respect, Palmer.

[@visualcontrast]

I love this guy's mentality and vision. Dynamite combo.

[@paleamigo8575]

This gentleman is in tune with the times in regards to how best to use technology to prevent wars. Well said!

[@falseego99]

I really like the nature and tech of these defence projects but there is also a bitter fact that as these tech develop more and more , so will be the tech of intrusion ( failing these defence systems ). This will in turn cause the missile and aircraft systems to become so lethal and advanced capable of doing destruction of massive scales . Unfortunately , this trajectory of human society is inevitable due to presence of more ambition than love/empathy for each other.

[@davidmacgown321]

A technology based company that contracts to the military is a brilliant idea because when I was in the Navy I came to realize the technology we were using was 10 years behind.

[@substygram4357]

This guy speaks really well. No ahh's or umm's, no pause, and at a really enjoyable flow.

[@henry8706]

dude is rich like Tony stark lol

[@manuelsandoval8680]

Thank you sir!

[@blkcoupequattro]

Not here say bad things about this guy, my father in law was a radar systems engineer, effectively playing a defense in the Cold War, this seem more like a defensive roll, but never the less war is a expensive engagement to start with, avoidance probably a much cheaper way to avoid costly wars.

[@kowenkatsufumi]

good to see the boy has grown up from his oculus days and more mature now putting his genius and energy hopefully towards a better world

[@lewisitor]

You know him?