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EP #37 How The Founder of Oculus Plans to Save America w/ Palmer Luckey

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

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How to Turn Down a Billion Dollar Offer From Mark Zuckerberg

Oculus VR was sold to Facebook for $2.3 billion in 2012. Oculus founder Brendan Iribe says the company wasn't looking to sell at the time. He says he and his team were "religious zealots" of virtual reality. The deal included a promise from Facebook that it would continue spending billions every year until mainstream adoption, I presume.

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