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Inside AppLovin’s $100B Ad Engine Aug 14, 2026 · 1 mention

"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 10, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 13:47 Cyan Banister They would have taken out Sam and Ryan and, um, you know, eventually figured out that Palmer, you know, was one. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:52 Cyan Banister Um, you know, some fun stuff, which I won't get into with Palmer and, uh, and Sam Altman.

Dylan Field on the “Permanent Underclass of Zero Taste” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 2, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 13:55 Dylan Field I was re-watching the third episode, and I think the star is actually Palmer. 4 times in the scene

Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 11, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 38:16 Molly O'Shea When I spend time, uh, and it's great because I have, like, the fortune, like, or the, I guess, like, the opportunity to spend time with these individuals, like, over the last year or so doing these interviews, I spent, I spent time with… 7 times in the scene

How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 29, 2026 · 29 mentions

  • ▶ 0:39 Kyle Harrison Palmer Luckey talks about this a lot where 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.
  • ▶ 6:35 Kyle Harrison On the Andrel side, I think the thing that is most, maybe not, I don't know if it's surprising, but because Palmer Luckey talks about this a lot, where in their very first pitch deck, he said, we are going to make billions of dollars by…
  • ▶ 30:29 Molly O'Shea I don't know how this happened, but we went over to Anduril, and we spent the day there, and I was able to interview four of the co-founders, Matt Grimm, Trey Stevens, Palmer Luckey, and Brian Schimpf, and it was amazing. 9 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:54 Kyle Harrison So you have Trey, who is the sort of, like, Palantir thread, where he pulls, uh, Matt, um, who he sees as sort of the operational excellence genius, and Brian, who is the engineering, you know, Matt scientist, and then Palmer pulls Joseph,… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:44 Kyle Harrison The biggest, like, proof point of, of Anduril's sort of capabilities is you look at, like, in Ukraine, um, Palmer says that, uh, Anduril has had products on the ground in Ukraine basically since day one. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 51:14 Molly O'Shea And I know Palmer is really interested in 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:12:13 Kyle Harrison And Palmer talks about this of like the way to recruit really sharp people that were working in tech is to go to them and say, Hey, probably the thing that you are working on does not really matter. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:17:56 Kyle Harrison If you engage in conflict, but also for our allies, where we want to make them what Palmer calls prickly porcupines, where we want Taiwan to be prickly enough that China doesn't think it's worth it to step on them. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:22:19 Kyle Harrison It was, it was far from, even though Palmer had been a successful founder and sold Oculus for two and a half billion, it was a very unpopular decision to work in defense in 2017 when they started. 5 times in the scene

Inside Jake Paul’s Empire: $200M Boxing Earnings to $65M+ Tech Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:35 Geoffrey Woo Like, I think there's a few entrepreneurs, I would say like an Elon Musk or a Palmer Luckey are like in that same caliber of tier, like a, like a, like a Zuckerberg.

Data Centers in Space? Armada’s CEO on SpaceX and the Edge · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:47 Molly O'Shea I know I was walking in, ran into Palmer Luckey, saw, you know, this like huge event, huge breakfast right under Air Force One.

CEO Vlad Tenev on Robinhood's Record Year (+200%, ~$100B Market Cap) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jan 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:37 Molly O'Shea I just interviewed, uh, Palmer Luckey, and he was like, I don't think people travel forward in time.

Warren Buffet & Charlie Munger's Greatest Lessons · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 31, 2025 · 1 mention

Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:09 Trae Stephens Um, and that was the original idea for the company when Matt, Brian, Palmer, uh, Joe and I started talking about building this company.

Full Anduril R&D Tour: Matt Grimm, Co-Founder & COO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 17, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 6:31 Matt Grimm 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. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:22 Molly O'Shea I gotta go to my Palmer interview really fast, so I'll just take it into the lobby.
  • ▶ 33:03 Matt Grimm Were you late for Palmer?

Inside the Myths: Emil Michael on Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril & the Modern DoW · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Dec 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:09 Emil Michael It's easy to say, well, companies who are in that business are bad, but I guess anyone who touches that world in any direct or indirect way, I think it's a, a quick appreciation for what it takes, and, you know, people use words, like,…

Inside Thrive Capital: Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:51 Philip Clark You know, if you were Elon starting SpaceX in the early 2000 or, uh, Palmer and Brian and Trey and Matt starting, uh, uh, and role in the late 20 tens, there wasn't actually a huge population

$635M Exit → $600M Fund: David Ulevitch on Building a16z’s Hottest New Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Nov 18, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:04 David Ulevitch A year after I joined, Mark asked me if I wanted to meet Palmer, and Andruil, even then, was very unapologetic that they were a defense company, and they were trying to build the next great defense prime.
  • ▶ 3:01 David Ulevitch Palmer Luckey, a few years earlier, had left Meta, um, had been accused of, like, being some, like, major right-wing financier. 3 times in the scene

Incubating Brain Co: Elad Gil’s AI Bet with Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:31 Elad Gil Um, Palmer Luckey is another one, um, where I backed Andrew in the very first round, and he was controversial given what happened at Meta early on with him.

CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Oct 5, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 15:27 Andy Lowery Well, you know, I think Palmer Luckey said it, and then Lex, or the robot. 4 times in the scene

Ashlee Vance: Stories from Elon, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson & Priscilla Chan · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Sep 8, 2025 · 3 mentions

Winning the AI Race & Reindustrialization | Christian Garrett, 137 Ventures · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 27, 2025 · 1 mention

How Altimeter's $10B AUM Fund Is Investing In Aerospace, Defense, & Hardtech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:05 Molly O'Shea I'm curious, what have you learned from working with Palmer and Brian?
  • ▶ 23:06 Eric Crispin And then, you know, you've, you've got Palmer and, and Brian in the team that is just exceptional on both hardware and software product development and how to actually like get

Base Power's $200M Series B | Co-Led by Lee Fixel, A16Z, Lightspeed, & Valor Equity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:21 Justin White And, uh, learn from the great founders, uh, you know, Palmer and Trey and Brian and, and, and, and Macram in particular, who I worked directly for, for, for my time there.

Kyle Harrison, GP at Contrary on Techno-Optimism, Talent Vortexes, & Writing “Investing 101” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:23 Kyle Harrison And so you look at a company like Andrew, like Palmer talks all the time about how he was like, you know, when we got started six, seven years ago, we were both a defense company and an AI company and neither were exciting.

Get Tesla Big | Chris Power, Hadrian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 29, 2024 · 1 mention

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