Patrick O'Shaughnessy

This was one of my favorite interviews in a long time.

Palmer is only in his early 30s, but he's already experienced more than most people will in a 40-year career.

We talk about innovation, invention, differentiated thinking, and so much more.

Please enjoy this great discussion with Palmer Luckey.

And if you're interested in learning more about Anderle, you can listen to my business breakdown from last year with the company's CEO.

You'll find the link in the show notes.

Palmer, I always like starting somewhere of recent passion.

You started to give me some amazing material.

So we stopped and we restarted the recording here.

And maybe we'll just begin with this idea that you were telling me about.

I'm always interested by major changes that might happen in the world that nobody is really talking about.

And until you said the word synthetic long chain hydrocarbon fuel to me five minutes ago, I'd never heard that combination of words before.

So maybe you can start there and explain why that topic is of interest to you today.

When you find an idea like this, first of all, I'm curious how you found this one in particular, but the world's just gone through this superconductor craze, which for a hot week there was like, well, if this is real, it changes everything.

And then very quickly realize, oh, it's not real.

And it seems like, again, a remote possibility and not terribly likely.

So maybe there won't be floods of dollars trying to create superconductors.

With something like this, how do you weigh the potential against the odds of us being able to do it with your own time and investigation?

If you think about, I'll call it the soil of, let's just use the United States to keep it local, the soil and the quality of the soil for potential innovation, and you had to rank that today, one through 10, what score would you give our soil today?

So what's the additional list of things it would take to get us from a six to a 10?