Company · Technology · founded 2012
Oculus VR
Virtual reality company founded in 2012 by Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov, Nate Mitchell and Andrew Scott Reisse. Facebook agreed to buy it in March 2014 for about $2 billion; it is now part of Meta's Reality Labs.
Part of Meta Platforms.
Of the 2 people here linked to Oculus VR, 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. 1 of them also appear at Andreessen Horowitz. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
2 people at Oculus VR
Founder Past
Role
Founder, 2012–2017
Also at
Source
· high confidence. He founded Oculus VR in April 2012. Facebook bought it in March 2014 and he stopped his involvement with Oculus when he left Facebook in March 2017.
Technology · Manufacturing 3 / 0
Palmer Luckey
Founder of Oculus VR, sold to Facebook for about $2 billion; founder and chairman of the defense-technology company Anduril Industries
middle-class · some · some college
Board Past
Role
Board member (joined when Andreessen Horowitz led the Series B), 2013
Source
· medium confidence. The page says he joined the board in December 2013. Oculus was bought by Facebook in 2014; whether he stayed on is not stated.
Venture Capital · Software 4 / 1
Marc Andreessen
Co-creator of the Mosaic web browser; co-founder of Netscape and of the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
middle-class · some · college degree
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