Oculus
4 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 21, 2025 by Palmer Luckey · said 38 times in 18 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 16 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Palmer Luckey: Why I Started My Own Bank
- Midjourney Goes Medical, Noam Shazeer & Dean Ball Join OpenAI | Diet TBPN
- Jimmy Iovine on AI: “The Great Artists Will Show the World How to Use It”
- Blue Origin Raises Capital, Getty-Shutterstock Deal Dies, GPT-5.6 Launches Tomorrow | Diet TBPN
- Google I/O, Fertility Decline, Spotify Logo Drama | Diet TBPN
- OpenAI Ends Side Quests, SF Housing Market is Back, Kalshi’s $1B Prize | Diet TBPN
- Why OpenAI Is Killing Side Projects to Win AI
- Big Tech turns to mining, Thinking Machines loses top executives, NYC Sauna Wars heat up | Diet TBPN
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2025 20 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- Palmer Luckey Live on TBPN
- He's Making REAL LIFE Super Heroes! (Palmer Lucky)
- Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- Sam Lessin on Meta, Artificial Intelligence, and Investing in Creators.
- Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping
- Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- The GREAT VC AI DEBATE between Slow Ventures and Greylock Partners.
- DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Oculus, oldest first
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Early Oculus avoided competing with independent developers to build its ecosystem
“In the early days of Oculus, we were very clear with developers. So our business relations, we are not Nintendo. We are not going to compete with you and basically destroy your sales by preferentially treating our own developers better, our own studios. So we …”
Feb 20, 2026 negative
Feb 20, 2026 negative
An Oculus executive secretly intercepted Luckey's invitation to ring the NYSE bell
“Back in the Oculus days, when we sold the company to Meta, one of the first things that happened was New York Stock Exchange emailed our contact info, email, and they asked if I would come and ring the bell of the New York Stock Exchange.
Sounds pretty cool, r…”
Feb 20, 2026
Palmer Luckey claims learning software programming would have delayed Oculus significantly
“I was only able to accomplish what I accomplished because I focused on what I was good at, which was optomechanics, a little bit of electrical, and then the product integration of all of these different components. I didn't have time to learn to program. If I …”