Palmer Luckey
22 statements across 6 episodes · 10 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 17, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 67 times in 15 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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2025 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2024 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
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2023 16 mentions in 2 episodes 8 per episode
2022 22 mentions in 3 episodes 7 per episode
2021 6 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Palmer Luckey, oldest first
Sep 17, 2021 bullish
Oct 25, 2022
Oct 25, 2022
Luckey: Employees should worry if a boss claims money doesn't matter
“I actually tell my own employees at onboarding that if you work at a place where your boss is saying that you should be worried because it's one thing to say that to the press. It's one thing to say that in your marketing materials, but you know, if your emplo…”
Oct 25, 2022 negative
Oct 25, 2022 positive
Luckey: Oculus founders maxed out multi-hundred-million earn-out in two years
“We had an earn out. That was a, it was a huge earn out. It was hundreds of millions of dollars for the founders of the company. If we could hit certain sales targets, And user user, like hours, hours of time targets. And we actually had four years to hit those…”
Oct 25, 2022
Luckey: The odds of a tactical nuclear weapon being used are high
“And so for that reason, I think this is a little contrarian and not everyone agrees, but I think that the odds of a tactical nuclear weapon are very high. It will not be used on the United States. It will not be used on a NATO ally. It'll probably be a tactica…”
Oct 25, 2022
Luckey: Anduril sells weapons only as directed by State Dept and DOD
“What it really is, is I will sell to the people that the U S state department and the U S DOD want me to like, if that, that, that, because they have information that I don't, they have intelligence that I do not. And I cannot second guess that and say, oh, yo…”
Oct 25, 2022 negative
Oct 25, 2022 positive
Oct 25, 2022 positive
Oct 25, 2022 positive
Luckey: Oculus probably wouldn't exist without the iPhone
“I mean, like, honestly, Oculus owes more to the iPhone than anything else. I mean, like, if the iPhone wouldn't have existed, there wouldn't have been broken iPhones for me to buy, unlock, repair, and sell on eBay. Like, cause I made tens of thousands of dolla…”
Oct 25, 2022
Oct 25, 2022
Luckey: Lost a significant amount of Bitcoin in Mt. Gox hack
“I'm one of those guys who lost a bunch of coins in the Mount Gox hack. Oh man, I got Gox good. And it was one of those things where there was no, like looking back, everyone's like, Oh my God, I can't believe that, you know, you would have, and I had most of m…”
Oct 25, 2022
Oct 25, 2022
Oct 25, 2022 bullish
Luckey: Seasteading Ferry Routes Require Privately Owned Marinas
“I think that you're going to end up needing if you want to have transport ferries that are operating from land out to international waters, you do not want to be in a position where the place you're doing that from is totally dependent on state government bure…”
Oct 25, 2022 neutral
Oct 25, 2022 neutral
Luckey prototyped zero-calorie cheese and fried food using mineral oil
“I actually started making prototypes of this, and I was messing around with a frying foods in mineral oil with high flash points because mineral oil also no calories. I made some paraffin based cheese. So it was basically like paraffin wax based fake cheese pr…”
Dec 18, 2023 positive
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Companies like Anduril and Blue Forge are making factory work cool
“And what this company is doing is they are trying to make it look cool and they are totally succeeding. And you're seeing this a little bit with Andrel. You know, Andrel? Yeah. So, Palmer Luckey's defense business in Orange County, where it's cool, again, to w…”
May 5, 2025 positive
Mack: Asking candidates about weird teenage hobbies reveals intrinsic motivation
“However, I think even with hiring, my best hires that I've placed pretty much all line up in that criteria that they are, have weird, interesting hobbies. I was listening to an interview with Palmer Luckey chatting about this, and he, I mean, it kind of hints …”