Palmer Luckey

12 statements across 7 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 20, 2025 by Elad Gil · said 83 times in 24 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Mentions by year

brought up most by Molly O'Shea (28), Kyle Harrison (17), Matt Grimm (7), David Ulevitch (7), Dylan Field (4), Cyan Banister (4), Andy Lowery (4), Ashlee Vance (3)

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2026 50 mentions in 9 episodes 6 per episode
2025 31 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode

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Everything said about Palmer Luckey, oldest first

Oct 20, 2025 positive
Opinion
Gil: Parker Conrad and Palmer Luckey were unfairly thrown under the bus
“Palmer Luckey is another one where I backed Andrew in the very first round, and he was controversial given what happened at Meta early on with him. I think in both cases, they basically got thrown under the bus in one form or another.”
Elad Gil Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 21:31 Incubating Brain Co: Elad Gil’s AI Bet with Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Nov 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Ulevitch: Anduril only releases real product footage without CGI renders or special effects
“Palmer has always said things like, we will never ship renders. Like, we will ship, ship actual videos of our products. So when you see an explosion that, like, an Android, like munition, but like explodes in a video. That's a real explosion. They're not doing…”
David Ulevitch Nov 21, 2025 ▶ 13:55 $635M Exit → $600M Fund: David Ulevitch on Building a16z’s Hottest New Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 15, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Luckey: UAPs are likely relics from the distant past, not future
“So that's my bet is basically given that there's been a lot more time before now than now. Just probabilistically speaking, I think it's likely these things have been around for a very long time.”
Palmer Luckey Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 31:29 Inside Anduril: Exclusive HQ Tour w/ Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Matt Grimm & Trae Stephens · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Grimm: Palmer Luckey drives product innovation and serves as Anduril's public persona
“Palmer is our founder, and he is the guy who has really a lot of the, like, innovative drive behind what drives us as a company. So new product ideas, new kind of what is in the business is called ConOps. It means, like, how will they use this product? How doe…”
Matt Grimm Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 6:31 Full Anduril R&D Tour: Matt Grimm, Co-Founder & COO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 22, 2025
Disclosure
Luckey is building a turbine-powered motorcycle redlining at 200,000 RPM
“I've been working on a turbine powered motorcycle for a while which I think is, you can get really, really high power density with turbine engines, and so I've been working on a motorcycle that red lines at about 200,000 RPM”
Palmer Luckey Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 28:27 Palmer Luckey on UFOs, Anduril, Invisibility Tech, & Moon Wars · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Luckey: Anduril has had hundreds or thousands of failed tests and fires
“We've had hundreds, if not thousands of failed tests over the eight years that we've existed. We've started hundreds of fires.”
Palmer Luckey Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 6:39 Palmer Luckey on UFOs, Anduril, Invisibility Tech, & Moon Wars · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 29, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Harrison: Anduril is actively working on subterranean warfare technology
“Like several people are working on that, including Anduril, much to the surprise, I don't know if you have heard this story, but there was a story of Palmer talking about subterranean warfare, and the marketing person at Anduril was there, it was like, to the …”
Kyle Harrison Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 51:47 300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 29, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Anduril's first pitch deck promised making billions by saving the government billions
“In their very first pitch deck, he said, we are going to make billions of dollars by saving the government tens of billions of dollars of revenue and of costs.”
Kyle Harrison Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 6:35 300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 29, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Harrison: Anduril has had products deployed in Ukraine since day one
“Palmer says that Anduril has had products on the ground in Ukraine basically since day one. They were over there pretty quickly, you know, deploying assets and stuff like that.”
Kyle Harrison Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 45:44 300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Apr 29, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Harrison: Palmer Luckey's Defense Interest Began with High School VR Research
“While he was in high school, he volunteered at a lab where they were basically doing research around how to use virtual reality to help soldiers deal with PTSD.”
Kyle Harrison Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 31:16 300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 11, 2026 positive
Opinion
Singerman says no single Anduril founder could have built the company alone
“The Andurl founding team are all so complimentary to each other and different, but respect each other so much and are good in different ways that Not any one of them, not any one of the four of them could have, like, pulled this off, but I do think that the co…”
Brian Singerman Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 39:42 Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 11, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Singerman was the first investor in Oculus
“So I was the first investor in, in Oculus and Oculus was a company that I invested in, not just on the street. I mean, I obviously Brennan Palmer great, but like, I was like, try the actual product and I'm not a product person, but I tried the actual product a…”
Brian Singerman Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 39:06 Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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