Palmer Luckey
Background
Palmer Luckey is a visionary inventor and engineer who founded Oculus VR at age 19 in his garage, reigniting the modern virtual reality industry before selling Oculus to Facebook in 2014 for over $2 billion.
Role at Anduril Industries, Inc.
Palmer Luckey is the co-founder and Chief Hardware Architect of Anduril Industries. celebrated as one of the most brilliant hardware engineers of his generation, Luckey left Facebook in 2017 with a radical ambition: to disrupt the stagnant, slow-moving American defense establishment by applying Silicon Valley's rapid prototyping and software engineering velocity to national security. At Anduril, Luckey directs physical hardware architecture, systems integration, and advanced manufacturing initiatives. He spearheaded the design of the Roadrunner reusable interceptor, the Barracuda autonomous cruise missile, and the Arsenal gigafactory concept. An outspoken defender of American technological supremacy, Luckey has fundamentally altered the defense landscape, proving that private venture capital and rapid software iteration can outbuild century-old defense monopolies.