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제목: Palmer Luckey says founders should look beyond the Bay Area to avoid hiring 'mercenary-minded' tech workers
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Palmer Luckey says relying on Silicon Valley talent left him with "mercenary-minded" hires.
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The Oculus founder now recruits nationwide, especially veterans, to build a mission-driven team.
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His $30 billion defense startup Anduril pitches "work that matters" over Silicon Valley perks.
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Palmer Luckey says he learned the hard way that relying on Silicon Valley talent can be a trap.
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The founder of Oculus VR and Anduril Industries recalled how, after Facebook (now Meta) acquired Oculus in 2014, his other company's hiring funnel narrowed almost exclusively to Bay Area engineers.
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Many, he said, were "very mercenary-minded" and more interested in résumé building than mission.
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"After moving to the Bay Area, I found that I could only hire people who already were in the Bay Area," Luckey said in an interview with Lulu Cheng Meservey on her YouTube channel on Monday.
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"We ended up with this pretty narrow funnel of often very mercenary-minded, very, very, tech-in crowd thinker type people."
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That experience shaped how he built his defense-technology startup, Anduril. Instead of drawing only from San Francisco, Luckey deliberately recruited nationwide, especially armed forces veterans.
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"Military vets do not want to live in San Francisco either," he said. "They don't want to pay $2 million to live in a crapshack."
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The strategy also helped shape Anduril's culture. In 2019, two years after its foundation, Bloomberg labeled the company "tech's most controversial startup."
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He said that drove off "the careerists, the lily pad jumpers, the mercenaries" who weren't interested in working somewhere that might hurt their ambitions.
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By casting a wider net, Luckey said he believes he built a workforce motivated by impact rather than perks.
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As he put it: "We have work that matters. We have work that's critical. You'll get to work on lots of cool things with lots of cool people. And you'll get to make a difference."
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기사 중간 부제목: From VR pioneer to defense-tech mogul
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Luckey, 33, founded Oculus VR at 19 in 2012 and sold it to Facebook in 2014 for about $2 billion. Two years later, he was fired after backlash surrounding his political donations to a pro-Donald Trump group, which ran a billboard showing Hillary Clinton and the text "Too Big To Jail."
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In 2017, he co-founded Anduril, which is now valued at around $30.5 billion and supplies the US and its allies with drones, AI software, and battlefield technology.
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Anduril has become one of the most closely watched defense startups in the US, winning billion-dollar Pentagon contracts and expanding overseas.
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For Luckey, building a workforce beyond Silicon Valley isn't just about culture — it's a strategy he believes is key to scaling a company that, as he put it in a February blogpost, is working "to solve our nation's most important problems."
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