Palmer Luckey
41 statements across 14 episodes · 23 bullish · 8 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 14, 2024 by John Coogan · said 207 times in 63 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by John Coogan (70), Jordi Hays (39), Casey Neistat (14), Trae Stephens (6), Yacine Mtibaa (5), Alexis Ohanian (4), Shane Arnott (3), Lulu Cheng Meservey (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 36 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- The AI chip squeeze, Dirty Soda mania, OCC approves Palmer Luckey’s Erebor | Diet TBPN
- Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN
- Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN
- Anthropic v. DoW, Paramount wins WB, OpenAI raises $100B | Diet TBPN
- FULL BREAKDOWN: Trump BANS Anthropic
- The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross
- AMD Advancing AI, Google Q2 Earnings, OpenAI Plans $750B Cloud Spend | Diet TBPN
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 110 mentions in 33 episodes 3 per episode
- He's Making REAL LIFE Super Heroes! (Palmer Lucky)
- The OCEAN Is the Next BATTLEFIELD | Shane Arnott on TBPN April 7th
- Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- CASEY NEISTAT on Why Analog Is The Future
- Can This Man Save Los Angeles? (Rick Caruso)
- Ford PULLS BACK EV Investment
- Trae Stephens talks Flock Safety, Anduril, and American Dynamism.
- DJI Suspicions, Stargate Turmoil, OpenAI Operator, F40 for the Mind
- 25 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 61 mentions in 13 episodes 5 per episode
- How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- Year of Tech in Review (ep25)
- CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
Everything said about Palmer Luckey, oldest first
Oct 14, 2024
Nov 15, 2024 positive
Hays: Anduril ranks profitability low to focus on critical product lines
“Anduril is focused on building a bunch of really critical, important product lines and profitability is maybe like number 12 on their list of priorities. So if Palmer cared about profits right now and the team more broadly cared, then I'm sure they would be ab…”
Nov 19, 2024 positive
Nov 21, 2024
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Coogan: Meta exec apologies to Palmer Luckey reflect genuine regret, not expediency
“I think it's, it is impressive, mostly because they didn't need to do this. Like, Palmer is not in charge of Meta. Meta is bigger than Anderl, and sure, they might want to align a little bit more with the new administration, but I do think that there's a genui…”
Jan 9, 2025 neutral
Jan 13, 2025 positive
Coogan: Disruptive government tech requires pairing engineers with seasoned Washington insiders
“I imagine the correct formulation is like a blend. Like what happened with Anderle where it was like three Palantir guys, Palmer Luckey who had no experience in defense, but is like this crazy engineer. And then Chris Brose joins who's been McCain's chief of s…”
Jan 16, 2025 negative
Jan 24, 2025 neutral
Coogan: Anduril's original Anvil drone destroys targets via kinetic impact
“Well, no, no, the original anvil just has just a weight in it, and so it's purely kinetic, and this is the whole story with Polymer figuring out how to shoot down DJI drones, electronic warfare, takeover, and what he realized was that if you just run into it, …”
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Jul 25, 2025 positive
Jul 25, 2025 neutral
Oct 21, 2025 negative
Oct 21, 2025 neutral
Oct 21, 2025 bullish
Erebor Bank aims for the most conservative loan-to-deposit ratio in history
“The reason that we got this approval is because we went in saying we are going to have the most conservative loan to deposit ratios of any bank in history. We are going to do this extremely novel service of taking money from people, holding it for them, and th…”
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Palmer Luckey argues people should biologically have children in their teens
“Kids should be having kids when they're in their teens. That's when they're supposed to have them. And you could argue that maybe there's a reason to stretch it out a little bit, but if we're just talking about Physical ability and depth of well of energy. You…”
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Luckey: VR headsets replace entire home theaters, not just television screens
“The way to think about VR headsets is not as a replacement for a TV, but as a replacement for a home theater. So, and the reason that's important is it's not just a TV, a screen. It's a controlled environment optimized for watching that content.”
Oct 21, 2025
Oct 21, 2025 negative
Palmer Luckey says starting high-risk startups after having children is irresponsible
“Once you have a family, you have a sort of fiduciary duty to your family to maximize their quality of life. There's no life hack that says that you're allowed to degrade the quality of your child's childhood because daddy wanted to have that grind set mindset,…”
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Starting a startup at 18 or 19 carries minimal downside risk
“People think that starting a company or taking a break from school is this very high risk move when you're young. They say, oh, how do you find the bravery to do that? What I need to, what I try to push on people is it will never get better. Like when you are …”
Oct 21, 2025 bullish
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 …”
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Oct 21, 2025 bullish
Feb 20, 2026 negative
Feb 20, 2026 bullish
Luckey predicts all banks must adopt stablecoin settlement to remain competitive
“Probably, but I think most of the forward looking companies that would value that network effect, that one in particular see, see, see that in the next few years, probably all banks are going to be forced to adopt this to be competitive.”
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 negative
Luckey argues banks are antiquated intermediaries necessitated primarily by government regulations
“In a way, the existence of a bank, to me, is almost this antiquated thing, like you would hope that companies could really just do all of this stuff themselves, or at least most of it themselves but the regulatory climate, the way that the banking system works…”
Feb 20, 2026 negative
Luckey argues the video game industry abandoned innovation for financial extraction
“The gaming industry, like many industries, figured out what actually worked a long time ago. They figured out how to make fun games, they figured out how to make things that make people keep coming back, but it's moved from innovation to extraction, and I will…”
Feb 20, 2026 positive
Erebor obtained an independent charter to prevent partner banks from forcing deplatforming
“We decided that we needed to get our own charter because of the type of bank we were going to try to run. And the ability to have the buck stop with us. The moment that you're dependent on somebody else for the key infrastructure, the key risk management, the …”
Feb 20, 2026 neutral
Feb 20, 2026 positive
Feb 20, 2026 positive
Erebor Bank will avoid residential mortgages to focus on equipment financing
“That's probably not going to be, for example you know, residential mortgages but things like equipment financing, very conservative You know, very conservatively played where it's not going to turn into a risk management problem allowing them to work with the …”
Feb 20, 2026 positive
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 …”
Feb 20, 2026 positive
Feb 20, 2026 neutral
Luckey admits Erebor's 24/7 settlement network moat will be short-lived
“I think that there will be network effects, but to be honest, whatever network effects there are, it will probably be pretty short lived. I think that pretty quickly everyone is going to realize that they need to support these things.”
Feb 20, 2026 positive
Feb 20, 2026 positive
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Thompson: Private AI Labs Imposing Unilateral Limits Invites Severe State Backlash
“Unilaterally imposing restrictions, even if those restrictions are good, isn't just an issue as far as who rules us, the democracy issue, that sort of Palmer Luckey, I think very eloquently raised. It's inviting Very bad outcomes for those asserting that in ge…”