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Founders Fund

American venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery in 2005 — which has invested in SpaceX, Airbnb, Palantir, Stripe, and Lyft — and which is known for making large concentrated bets on ambitious technology companies.

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Palmer Luckey

American entrepreneur — inventor of the Oculus Rift VR headset (sold to Facebook for $2B, 2014) — founder of Anduril Industries (defense technology company building autonomous weapons systems) — the most consequential defense technology entrepreneur of his generation.

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