Palmer Luckey

The biggest surprise was that Oculus became big.

When I set out to build Oculus, I didn't have any of this perspective.

That was big by chance.

Obviously, I believed that VR was going to take over the world.

I believed that it was going to become the dominant form of computing.

But if you had asked me to honestly bet the odds that Oculus was going to be the one that managed to pull it off, that was a tougher bet.

I started working on VR as a hobby and I was able to turn it into a job and able to turn it into a company.

That was a crazy bet.

And so I guess my other advice to people would be don't look at things like Oculus and think that that is the optimal way to make an impact in the world.

It's not to say, what am I passionate about?

And what do I like doing?

I'm going to turn that into a business.

I'm sure it goes well.

It's actually to completely separate the impact you have from what you want to be doing.

Put another way.

I don't want to be doing Anduril.

Not really.

I would rather be making virtual reality headsets.

I'd rather be making video games and toys, fast cars, spaceships.

That's what I want to be doing.