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Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital) - Investing at the Cutting Edge

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How Facebook Becomes the Ultimate Chip on Your Shoulder

Palmer Lucky founded a virtual reality company called Oculus VR. He sold that to Facebook for a few billion dollars and when he got fired, I started Android so that I could work on autonomous systems for national security. Palmer made a lot of money when he sold to Zuck. And Zuck was inspired by Ready Player One. The board of Facebook read the book and it became basically the playbook for how they were going to make acquisitions from everything from software to haptics.

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