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A 19-Year-Old Programmer Built a $2,300,000,000 Company in 2 Years
No One Could Have Predicted His Success
Facebook acquired Oculus VR for $2.3 billion in 2014.
Palmer Luckey founded Oculus when he was 19 years old. He had dropped out of college where he was studying journalism. His parents were concerned about his decision to drop out of college.
In less than 2 years his company Oculus VR was acquired by Facebook.
Palmer Luckey is now the founder of Anduril Industries. Palmer has raised more than $385 million in funding with Anduril from various investors.
The Oculus journey began in a trailer
The trailer belonged to a nineteen-year-old boy named Palmer Luckey.
Luckey had modified the trailer to suit his every need. Luckey had installed all six of his screens in the trailer. Luckey used to conduct hardware experiments in the remaining space of the trailer.
His obsession with virtual reality began when he was sixteen years old. During that time, only a handful of people were interested in virtual reality.
Initially, when Luckey started, he had no idea about virtual reality.
