@kanopy.labs: Palmer Luckey. Cofounder of Oculus. Cofounder of Anduril Industries. One company Facebook bought for $2 billion. The other is now valued at $61 billion. Two completely different industries. Same person. Same pattern. What makes Palmer's story different from most founder stories is the jump. VR to defense. Consumer tech to military systems. Those are not adjacent industries. They share almost nothing in terms of customers, regulations, sales cycles, or product requirements. But Palmer did not change his approach. He changed the problem. At 17, he looked at VR headsets and saw technology that did not work the way it should. So he built 50 prototypes until it did. At 25, he looked at the defense industry and saw a system that rewarded slow building. So he built a company that delivers finished products at a fixed price instead of billing by the hour. Same instinct both times. Find the broken system. Build something better. Do not wait for permission from the people who benefit from the system staying broken. That is the part of this story that applies to every founder, not just the ones building billion dollar defense companies. Every industry has a system everyone accepts because nobody has bothered to challenge it yet. The founders who see those systems and decide to build something better are the ones who end up mattering. We help founders who have found that problem and need it built. Let's talk. #palmerluckey #oculus #anduril #defensetech #vr #startupstory #founderstory #techfounder #startupfounder #productstudio #buildinpublic #softwarestudio #entrepreneurship #mvpdevelopment #productdevelopment #startup #buildwithus #startuplife #foundermindset #kickstarter

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