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A dropout living in a trailer, he got $1 million from Peter Thiel at 19—now he’s a billionaire who says the American Dream isn’t dead
Palmer Luckey's success story—going from a college dropout living in a trailer to building Oculus and selling it for $2 billion by age 21—is presented as proof that the American Dream endures. Receiving initial funding from Peter Thiel, he later founded Anduril, a defense tech company now valued at $61 billion, and Erebor Bank, which also received major financial backing.
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