Palmer Luckey

Do we even need to talk about what the media coverage would look like?

The idea speaks for itself.

Imagine if, not even at that level where it's going to federal court.

By the way, I've been to federal court to a jury verdict twice in my short career already.

I won both times at the end, but it's not that being in court is the end of a career, but it could be.

People would be saying, how did Peter Thiel's ideals influence the criminal mind of Sam?

And isn't this really a reflection of modern conservatism?

Blah, blah, blah.

That's probably why a lot of people who are in a position to sponsor something like a Thiel Fellowship are not necessarily incentivized to do so.

They are more likely to, let's say, give an endowment or make some kind of scholarship at a school where the school is the one taking the heat.

People don't give schools shit when they subsidize students that then go south.

I don't think Stanford got that much heat for Elizabeth Holmes.

People are okay with that idea.

If you could imagine though, whatever scholarships may have helped her had come directly from some individual of wealth, I think that you probably would have had it covered very differently.

So that's my initial idea.

Rich people say, juice ain't worth the squeeze.

It was so much easier in the Oculus days because I felt it was more singular.

I was trying to bring VR to the masses, which had never been done.

There'd never been a successful VR company in history.

Started when I was a VR hobbyist.