aimlessness is a vice
Denver, CO
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Matt Albrecht at/roo retweeted
>be Palmer Luckey
>born 1992, Long Beach, California
>homeschooled by mom, dad's a car salesman
>build railguns, Tesla coils, lasers in the garage as a teenager
>electrocute yourself, burn a gray spot into your own vision cleaning a laser
>no regrets
>start college courses at 14
>build a six-monitor gaming rig worth tens of thousands of dollars
>collect 43 VR headsets by the time you're 18
>largest private collection in the world
2009:
>found ModRetro Forums at 17
>turn old game consoles into portable units for fun
>work part-time at USC's Mixed Reality Lab designing VR for veterans with PTSD
2012:
>build the Oculus Rift prototype in your parents' garage at 19
>drop out of college
>John Carmack (Doom creator) demos your headset at E3
>Gabe Newell endorses it
>launch Kickstarter asking for $250K
>raise $2.4 million
2014:
>Mark Zuckerberg shows up
>Facebook acquires Oculus for $2 billion
>you're 21 years old
>Forbes estimates your net worth at $700 million
>described as "the face of virtual reality"
2016:
>donate $10K to a pro-Trump group
>post anti-Hillary memes on Reddit under a pseudonym
>get exposed
>game developers boycott Oculus
>Facebook pressures you to publicly endorse Gary Johnson instead
>refuse
2017:
>get fired from your own company
>Zuckerberg won't say why
>negotiate $100 million+ payout for wrongful termination
>immediately found Anduril Industries
>name it after Aragorn's sword from Lord of the Rings
>partner with Peter Thiel
>start building autonomous weapons and AI defense systems
2020-2024:
>win $1 billion contract with U.S. Special Operations Command
>drones deployed to Ukraine
>revenue doubles to $1 billion
>take over Microsoft's $22 billion military headset contract
>Pentagon can't stop writing you checks
2022:
>build a VR headset that literally kills you if you die in-game
>inspired by Sword Art Online
>three explosive charges aimed at your forehead
>call it "office art"
>"it won't be the last"
2025:
>Anduril valued at $30.5 billion
>announce plans to build Arsenal-1
>5 million square foot weapons factory in Ohio
>autonomous fighter jets, missiles, torpedoes
>China sanctions you personally
>net worth hits $3.5 billion
>pay yourself $100K salary
>still wearing Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops to Pentagon meetings
>own a submarine, helicopters, and a PT boat
>keep one of the world's largest video game collections underground
>married a woman who sews historically accurate Tudor costumes
>won first place at Texas Renaissance Festival dressed as Henry VIII
>Sword Art Online author drew your wedding gift
from garage tinkerer to youngest self-made billionaire to America's most important defense contractor
all while looking like he's headed to a beach party
Matt Albrecht at/roo retweeted
fascist → disagrees with me persuasively
nazi → a person i don't like
misinformation → information i don’t control
violence → speech i don't like
safety → your silence
democracy → my side winning
equity → unequal rules for “fairness”
extremist → too effective to ignore
Matt Albrecht at/roo retweeted
Religion A: I hate your values, your culture, your heritage, your religion, your freedoms, your liberties, your zest for life, your love of dogs, your rights for gays, your rights for women, your love of music, your sexual liberation, your freedom of speech, your freedom of inquiry, but especially I hate your Jews.
The West: We must work hard to fight against any A-phobia. We cannot tolerate any discrimination toward A. We must increase immigration from lands of A.
My @daylightco & @thelightphone shipping on the same day after waiting close to a year for both 👀
I had a realization this morning.
And I mean this in the deepest possible sense.
I’m passionate about ice cream.