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Palmer Luckey

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

I'm convincing the people who are more at the strategic level.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

Put it another way, every person in the U.S.,

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

who gets to decide what rocket motors get purchased, you could fit them in a conference room.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

It's not millions of people that I need to reach.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

It's actually a very small group of people.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

And so it's a very different kind of marketing that we have to do.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

I think that's probably the toughest lesson for me to learn coming into this from Oculus, where it was like one to all marketing

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

as opposed to what we've done at Android, which is one to few and being hyper, hyper targeted.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

It's really fun to make TV ads and do big trade show presences and to do a press tour where you meet with 50 press outlets over the course of four days.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

That's what I would do when I was, for example, at Oculus going to CES.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

I would go to CES and we would give people 30 minute meetings, each press outlet.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

And they would be 15 minutes of talking

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

with me and then 15 minutes of getting a demo of the latest Oculus Rift hardware and software.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

I would rotate through four press outlets an hour doing this 15 minute spiel.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

And we would start at about 9 a.m.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

and we would go till 5 p.m.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

So you'd have about 32 outlets a day.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

You do that for four days and you say, wow, I met with almost 200 people in the last few days.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

That was really fun.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]

And of course, now you're reaching the millions of people that read those 150 or 200 outlets.