What Palmer Luckey Bought After Oculus Sold For $2 Billion
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- Опубликовано: 27 окт 2018
- Palmer Luckey was just 21 years old when Mark Zuckerberg decided to buy his virtual reality company Oculus for $2 billion. Here's what the young entrepreneur splurged on.
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If you ever become a multi-millionaire overnight, there's a good chance you'll have the urge to immediately spend some of your newfound fortune on a few big purchases.
Palmer Luckey didn't win the lottery, but he did suddenly find himself with a life-changing amount of money when he sold his start-up to Facebook for over $2 billion when he was just 21 years old. Luckey is the co-founder of Oculus, the virtual reality technology company that makes the Rift VR headset.
Facebook bought the company in 2014, only about three years after Luckey had built the first rough prototype of the Oculus Rift in his parents' garage in Long Beach, California. Less than a year after selling Oculus to Facebook, Forbes estimated Luckey's net worth at "well over $500 million," thanks to his Oculus stake and his haul from the sale. (Forbes' most recent estimate of Luckey's net worth put it at $730 million in 2016.)
Now 26, Luckey tells CNBC Make It that he splurged on three notable purchases after his financial windfall from Facebook. The common thread among the three splurges? Well, they're all flashy ways of getting around.
"The first thing that I did when I got a bit of money was buy a [1969 Ford] Mustang convertible," Luckey says. "Then, I bought a Tesla Model S, which I think is the best overall car made in the entire world."
A new Tesla Model S, the electric automaker's popular luxury sedan, costs anywhere from $75,000 to over $135,000, depending on the package of features you choose. Meanwhile, CarGurus.com has 1969 Ford Mustang convertibles on sale for anywhere from $16,000 to nearly $33,000.
The third item Luckey splurged on required a bit more training to use than the cars. "Shortly after that, I bought a helicopter," he tells CNBC Make It. Helicopters can cost anywhere from several hundred thousand to millions of dollars.
Luckey's reason for wanting to take to the sky in his own helicopter goes back to his childhood, he says: "Growing up, I always wanted to be a helicopter pilot. I ended up not following that career path, but I figured being flown around in a private jet by somebody else is what most rich people do. Flying around yourself in a helicopter is much much cooler, so I have a lot of fun doing that."
Luckey received his student pilot's license in 2016, according to The New York Times, but he admits he's still improving his flying skills. "I wouldn't recommend that you ride with me - I'm still learning - but, that is a lot of fun," he says.
Luckey stayed on at Facebook-owned Oculus through 2017, when he left to found the defense technology startup Anduril Industries. Luckey, who faced controversy at Facebook over supporting a group that spread anti-Hillary Clinton memes, recently told CNBC that "it wasn't my choice to leave [Oculus]." Luckey's fellow Oculus co-founder, Brendan Iribe, also left Facebook this past week.
Meanwhile, when it comes to managing money, Luckey says he takes a conservative approach to investing that he learned from his grandfather. "My grandfather taught me about money, and he taught me about how to invest conservatively and preserve what you have."
For the most part, Luckey's investment strategy involves putting money into relatively low-risk index funds that spread money across various stocks and equities. "I don't try to beat the market," he says. "I just go along with it and figure that, as long as the United States economy is doing well, I will do well."
Even though he made a multimillion-dollar fortune from selling Oculus, Luckey says he doesn't put too much effort into investing his money. "I don't pretend to be a venture capitalist, or something," he says. "My goal is to make my business successful, to make my employees successful, not to spend my time turning the money I've already made into more money by investing in what other people are doing. I believe in what I'm doing more than what I believe in almost anyone else is doing, so that's where I should be investing my time."
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3 things Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey splurged on when Facebook bought it for $2 billion | CNBC Make It.
Wow! What a guy? If US economy is doing well, I am doing well, if it isnt doing well then it doesnt matter coz my life probably sucks anyways.
BOT THIS DUDE IS A WEIRDO
@@ZakTheMak hes a genius millionaire. ur sitting at home in ur underwear eating cereal typing this comment
are you guys talking about me im not weird
@@zuvlet beign a "genius millionaire" and beign weird are not mutually exclusive
@@samdis1890 they most definitely are
HE IS ONE CLEVER DUDE 💯HIS NEW COMPANY IS THE FUTURE OF WAR.
When that unicorn go ipo I'm gonna drop buckets
@@taylorsukoshi6126 YEP✌🏿
So you're hyped that we can have "better" wars with the drones? Luckey made the company incase the US are attacked
Disgraceful to have a legacy of violence. Better to have no legacy at all in that case
No submarine?
it was fun good for you
He is the next kayaba akihiko?
🤣🤣 Sao
give them man some high energy lasers.
I personally know the creator of the Oculus Rift, he is Palmer Freeman Lucky, and I got to go to his wedding in California (and got to go to his house which looks amazing!! He loves anime way more than I ever can) if you don’t believe me go to the link below to
ruclips.net/video/FAnOyKN-Cqg/видео.html
You can see me talking to people who came from Japan (I’m in the long red dress)
1:37:32 to 1:37:58.
Tony Stark
DONT PLAY WHIT YOUR LIFE DUDE THATS NOT COOL,LOVE YOURSELF!YOUR LIFE IS NOT A GAME AND NEVER WISH IT WAS! SUICIDE IS NOT COOL.REPEAT: NOT COOL!