Palmer Luckey

I'm doing what I'm doing with Andoril because I think that it's important and I think that it's going to be more impactful.

When I was starting Andral, I specifically said, I want to do something big.

I want to do something impactful.

And I don't know if you've ever heard me talk about this, but there are three things I was considering.

One was solving obesity, which is the biggest killer and growing that I think we can feasibly solve.

The other is private prison reform.

I think there's ways we could eliminate the private prison system by out-competing them with better incentives and align those incentives towards recidivism.

Yes, recidivism.

I'm sorry, I'm destroying myself.

And then the other was trying to fix national security.

And so this is the one I ended up in.

But none of those three things sound like fun things to work on, but they're important things.

Well, it depends on if it's a field that I know a lot about or don't know a lot about.

If you know a lot about something, it's easier to get right into the iterative side of things and know that you're probably on a pretty reasonable path.

In that case, iteration is a valuable tool to move very quickly, find out what works, find out what doesn't, and then continuously make it better.

The risk with going with a strongly iterative approach in areas that you maybe don't understand

and you might even think you do, but let's say you truly don't, is that there might be much better approaches that you should have started iterating on or that you should have examined before you committed to one particular path.

I talked about this earlier, but it's really about going back to the future.

I love to go and see what everyone else who solved this problem thinks about it, not in the recent times.

I don't want to know what my competition looks like because when I started Oculus,