It’s been a brief, strange journey for Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR, the virtual reality shop that Facebook acquired in 2014 for $2 billion. With a deal like that, 24-year-old Luckey seemed like a star member of the next generation of young tech startup founders alongside Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, 27, and perhaps Patrick and John Collison, 28 and 26 respectively, the Irish brothers behind the San Francisco payments company Stripe.
(You know the tech industry moves quickly when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 33, is the establishment.)
But Luckey’s fall from grace was swift. At the end of last year he was revealed to have donated heavily to the then-unlikely presidential campaign of Donald Trump (as well as organizations spreading anti-Hillary Clinton Internet memes), hobbies that stood in sharp contrast to most of his Silicon Valley peers.
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