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Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 7, 2026 · 1 mention

Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 30, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12:30 Marc Andreessen I mean, the most straightforward example is the deal we didn't do, we should have done, is the Andrewle Series A, um, right, which was like, which was just, like, sort of obvious that it was gonna be special, and, you know, Palmer, we had… 2 times in the scene

99% of Drone Companies Will Die & Why Anduril’s Products Aren’t an Ethics Debate | Matthew Steckman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 23, 2026 · 3 mentions

Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 27, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:43 David Cahn It was a very odd, you know, before that you had to be a visionary and, and to Palmer's credit and, and Peter Thiel's credit and people like this, like they were visionaries before the transformer paper, you're a visionary.

20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp Oct 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:10:13 Harry Stebbings I hope the same, and you know, thank the Lord every day I see Palmer Luckey's colorful shirts that, you know, he is our hope for geopolitical stability.

GetYourGuide CEO & Founder, Johannes Reck: The Wild Story Raising $450M From Masa and Softbank · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 23, 2025 · 1 mention

Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 11, 2024 · 1 mention

Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2024 · 1 mention

Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 11, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:51 Harry Stebbings You're like, I wonder what Palmer's done now.
  • ▶ 51:37 Matt Grimm Um, in the early days, it was, uh, exclusively Trey who'd run our fundraising processes, and he would put, uh, Palmer or me or Brian or some of our key engineers in front of investors at the right time to, um, kind of, you know,
  • ▶ 1:04:58 Harry Stebbings Incredible product mind in, um, Palmer.

Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 12, 2024 · 1 mention

Michael Eisenberg: How China Could Overtake the US in the AI Race | E1167 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:18 Michael Eisenberg It's not a couple of guys, you know, in, in Palmer Luckey, people kind of, because he's dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, don't take him seriously enough.

Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 3, 2024 · 3 mentions

Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 17, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:58 Harry Stebbings When we look at like Andrew, you know, a lot of the success I always believed was the combination of Palmer and Trey, and actually Trey bringing a lot of the experience, probably from Palantir, um, of how government and selling to…

Brian Singerman: How I Became a Partner at Founders Fund, Why We Put $400M into Anduril | 20VC #943 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 31, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:03 Brian Singerman You take the Endural team, the, the team who, like, a team who is seasoned, who knows what they are doing, has great government relations, pair it with a person as brilliant as Palmer Luckey in terms of product, um, tech and product…

20VC: The Anduril Memo: Founders Fund's Brian Singerman on What Makes Palmer Luckey One of the Greatest Innovators in History, Why It Is BS The DOD Do Not Want To Work With Silicon Valley & Why in Venture You Have To Play A Different Game to the Hedge Fun Nov 11, 2021 · 16 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings Earlier this year, we had Palmer Luckey on TwentyVC, and if you haven't checked that out, it is a must. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:28 Brian Singerman Yeah, I mean, I was one of the first investors in Oculus, and so knew Palmer from those days, 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:08 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Palmer there, obviously. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:25 Brian Singerman The other guys had their Palantir experience, and Palmer is just one of the greatest technology innovators in history, period.
  • ▶ 10:24 Harry Stebbings You said that, but actually both Palmer and John Lutting on your team asked that, which was like, why are so few founders willing to innovate in
  • ▶ 12:29 Brian Singerman And there's nobody like Palmer on the brilliant technologist visionary, maybe Elon, but these guys are not common.
  • ▶ 14:54 Harry Stebbings If that's a misconception that people have towards the relationship between Barney the Valley and the DoD, Palmer asked, what do you think the biggest misconception is around Andrew as a company? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:24 Harry Stebbings Speaking of kind of founder-dependency, you've seen Palmer over many years in different cycles.

20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S Oct 1, 2020 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Harry Stebbings This is the 20 Minute VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and on Monday we have Palmer Luckey on the show, founder at Anduril, and I mentioned this week's shows are connected, because our guest today invested in Palmer's seed round with Anduril. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:38 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many good things from Jeff at Bedrock, from Palmer at Angel, and from Rachel at Guild.
  • ▶ 15:01 Katherine Boyle And what's interesting is that I've seen a pattern in my own thinking where the founders that I'm really impressed by, whether it's Palmer and Brian at Anderle or Misha at Nova Credit or Rachel at Guild, they're people who are so obsessed…

20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda Sep 25, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:53 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you a set of fantastic episodes next week with Catherine Boyle at General Catalyst and Palmer Luckey.

20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures Nov 2, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:28 Harry Stebbings I do want to go back to your story with, uh, Lucky and Oculus, because you mentioned that obviously it was VCs that pushed you out, and it taught you the importance of a network.

20VC: Spark's Nabeel Hyatt on Investing in Oculus and Cruise & What It Takes To Invest Ahead Of The Curve Jun 8, 2016 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 9:30 Nabeel Hyatt Like, virtual reality was dead, and it'd been dead for, like, 15 years plus until, you know, Brendan and Palmer and Nate walk in and give you a demo, and you suddenly realize that the time for that market is, is now.
  • ▶ 14:14 Nabeel Hyatt Yeah, that is just an amazing piece of self-awareness by Palmer Luckey as a founder to say he didn't want that job, especially in the kind of Hollywoodization of startup land. 3 times in the scene
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