The Department Of War Has A Mullet | Palmer Luckey #464 | The Way I Heard It
From Mike Rowe
Palmer Luckey is the virtual reality guy who started a company called Oculus when he was in his 20s and sold it to Facebook a few years later for a couple billion dollars. He has since gone on to do a number of interesting things, including starting a company called Anduril, which manufactures state-of-the-art weapons and a variety of autonomous systems for the United States military. We had a fascinating conversation about a number of topics, including how to win future wars, deindustrialize...
Mentioned in This Episode
- Palmer Lucky (person)
- Department of Defense (company)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) (person)
- nuclear power (product)
- autonomous weapons (product)
- Department of War (company)
- energy independence (concept)
- Fracking (product)
- AI fighter jets (product)
- Tolken (person)
- deep sea mining (product)
- Deep Sea Mining (concept)
- Oculus Rift (product)
- General Dynamics (company)
- risk equilibrium (concept)
- geoengineering (product)
- Northrup (company)
- robot submarines (product)
- self-aiming rifles (product)
- The Lord of the Rings (book)