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.
Creates modern consumer VR and then pivots to create the defense technology startup ecosystem — Luckey's Oculus proved that affordable consumer VR was possible; his Anduril (founded after being forced out of Facebook) is the first defense startup to successfully compete with traditional defense contractors using software-first product development.
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