Rank #850
Palmer Luckey
Net worth $5.0B
Virtual reality, defense technology · United States
- Born
- Sep 19, 1992
- Age
- 33
- Source
- Virtual reality, defense technology
- Residence
- Newport Beach, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Drop Out, California State University, Long Beach
Net worth over time
Biography
- Palmer Luckey founded virtual reality company Oculus VR in 2012 and sold it to Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion in cash and stock.
- He built the company's first offering, the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, when he was 16 years old. He left Facebook in 2016.
- In 2017, he founded defense startup Anduril, which private investors valued at $30.5 billion in its latest funding round in June 2025.
- Luckey grew up in Long Beach, California, where he was home-schooled by his mother and spent time working on cars with his father.
- After upgrading old video game consoles to make them mobile, he started collecting bulky VR headsets and tinkering with them.
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