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- Palmer Luckey founded the virtual reality company Oculus and sold it to Meta for $2 billion.
- He was fired from Meta two years later.
- Luckey went on to become the founder of defense-tech startup Anduril Industries.
Palmer Luckey was 20 years old when he founded the virtual reality company Oculus VR in 2012.
Just two years later, he sold it to Meta for $2 billion in cash and stock. Since then he's founded Anduril, a defense tech company that's snapping up government contracts and changing the future of war.