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Uncommon Knowledge · 2026-05-20 · 54 min · 10,533 words

Palmer Luckey Wants America to Win | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

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He wears Hawaiian shirts and tells the Pentagon how to defend the Republic. Paul Merlucky on Uncommon Knowledge now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, recording today at a Pacific research event. Here at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, I'm Peter Robinson. A native of Long Beach, Palmer Lucky was homeschooled by his mother.

He attended Long Beach State, then dropped out to develop a virtual reality company. In 2014, Mr. Lucky sold that company, Oculus, to Facebook for $2 billion. He was 21. In 2017, Mr.

Lucky founded Andoril. Palmer, thank you for driving up from El Segundo for us. It was it was it was it was no problem at all. I took my helicopter partway actually and I had another engagement.

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