Founder Profile
Palmer Luckey
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Palmer Luckey?
Palmer Luckey is a founder of Anduril Industries, Inc., which was founded in 2017 with Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm and Joe Chen.
- Company founded
- Anduril Industries, Inc.
- Founded
- 2017
- Co-founders
- Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm and Joe Chen
Background
Palmer Luckey built early virtual reality prototypes as a teenager, founded Oculus VR in 2012 and sold it to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014. The work that made the Rift possible, cheap sensors, optics and fast hardware iteration, is the same approach Anduril applies to sentry towers, interceptors and helmet systems.
Founding Story
Palmer Luckey is a co-founder of Anduril Industries and its best known hardware voice. He left Facebook in March 2017 and started Anduril weeks later, arguing that the Pentagon was buying from too few, too slow suppliers while leading technology firms refused military work. At Anduril he works on hardware architecture and has fronted launches including the Roadrunner interceptor in December 2023 and the EagleEye mixed-reality helmet in October 2025, a product that returned him to the headset engineering he started with. Palmer Luckey was born in 1992.
Sources
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- CNBC: Anduril doubles valuation to $61 billion in $5 billion funding round (Anduril Industries, Inc.)
- CNBC: Anduril in talks to raise at a $28 billion valuation, with 2024 revenue of about $1 billion (Anduril Industries, Inc.)