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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 had 100 chips on my shoulder.

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

I was waking up with my fist clenched every day.

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

I said, I am going to prove to them that I'm somebody.

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

I am not a one-hit wonder.

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

They haven't seen the last of me.

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

One of the kindest things that I think anyone's done has been my wife, who I had told, hey, when I'm done with Oculus and we get

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

through the consumer launch of the rift, and that's going to be the right time.

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

Her saying, you are clearly not in a good headspace to get married.

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

You are on the war path.

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

And her being willing to let me start Andoril, do that for a few years.

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

And then finally, we start dating when she's 15.

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

So to say, oh wait, 15 years, that's a pretty kind thing to do.

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

I don't know how that stacks up against all the other kindnesses in my life, but that's one that sure seems pretty kind to me.

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

Beyond reasonable.

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

I would say.

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

Is there anything kinder than someone doing something for you and doing it very much against what they want because they know that it's what you need to do?

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

I don't think so.

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

Well, if it wasn't for that, Andral wouldn't be where it is today.

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

I think there was a power to Andral being started in a fire of passion.

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

And I feel like if I would have done what she originally wanted, which was take off a year, relax a little bit, two things would be different.