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Monday, June 11, 2018
 
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Palmer Luckey, who founded Facebook-owned Oculus VR and subsequently left both companies in March 2017, said he learned the importance of being cautious after his time at Facebook: "Be careful who you trust," he told Wired's Steven Levy. "Be careful who has control."

The California native created the virtual-reality system out of his house as a teenager as a tool "designed by gamers, for gamers," according to his Kickstarter page from 2012. [...] sold Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion at the age of 21. Three years later, he left the company with no detailed explanation from either party as to why.

In the months leading up to his departure, reports of Luckey's support of alt-right group Nimble America amidst the 2016 election brought some negative attention to Oculus. The reports alleged that Luckey paid for [billboards ripping Hillary Clinton as “Too Big to Jail”] and wrote crass Reddit posts for the group. He denied these claims in a Facebook post, saying he donated $10,000 solely in support of the group's ability to reach younger voters.

He also apologized for "negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners," in response to negative comments from people on his Facebook page, and six months later he was out of Facebook — and Oculus.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Republican senator Ted Cruz that Luckey wasn't fired due to politics when Cruz asked about his departure during his April 2018 Senate hearing. Whatever the reason, Luckey — who has since gone on to work on a defense tech startup called Anduril — says he'll be more wary of the people he surrounds himself with.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/palmer-luckey-oculus-facebook-lessons-2018-6
http://www.businessinsider.com/palmer-luckey-oculus-facebook-lessons-2018-6

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