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ATPalmer Luckey, the wild-eyed genius who birthed Oculus VR and sold it to Facebook for a cool $2 billion, ditched the VR goggles to forge Anduril Industries in 2017—a defense tech beast named after a Tolkien sword, because why not?
This mad lad teamed up with ex-Palantir brainiacs to sling AI-powered drones, creepy surveillance towers, and other war toys at the U.S. military, raking in over $1 billion in contracts and jacking Anduril’s worth to $14 billion by 2024.
From a homeschool basement in Long Beach to shaking up the Pentagon, Luckey’s basically Tony Stark minus the suit—building killer tech on his own dime and cackling as he outsmarts the old-school defense dinosaurs.
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