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Palmer Luckey on Elon Musk and John Carmack, selling Oculus for $2B and starting defense tech company Anduril

The Aarthi and Sriram Show

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How Did You Meet Zelensky?

The US didn't want to let Ukraine buy our technology because they were afraid that it would provoke Russia into doing military action. I met Zelensky in New York to talk about that and try to get him some of our technology. And ultimately, we couldn't do it because of the factors I just talked about. So I went a few places in Ukraine, a few different sites where training and then spent time in Kyiv doing a whole bunch of different stuff. It's pretty incredible that basically the second the fighting stopped, they immediately started rebuilding. The most powerful tool that the Russians have against Ukraine is actually the full control of their own media.

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