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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…”
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 …”
Palmer Luckey claims a person posing as an Oculus co-founder is lying
“There's a guy running around now who says that he's a co-founder of Oculus, who was very much so not a co-founder.”
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 …”