palmer luckey has this reputation as the trumpiest person in silicon valley.hen he starts a company, whose first project is surveilling the mexican border right at the time the trump border policies are really building up. and that immediately fed into a debate on should tech be refusing to build things like this? then you have the trump administration, already causing trouble in silicon valley and border surveillance, and they jumped into that. jason: one of the models of silicon valley of late is being connected to founders fund and the folks associated in that orbit. how does that play into this story? josh: founders fund is the investment fund founded by peter thiel, who backed the president in the 2016 election. he's the other technologist most associated with donald trump. and he has an uneasy relationship with peter thiel. i've talked to them a lot. they really want to say he had nothing to do with this company. they say it's just an investment fund and they happen to be one of our investors. they really want to play it down. at the same time, this fits

the founder is a guy named palmer luckey. he founded the oculus rift headset.re's this piece of technology, bought by facebook for $2 million. right before the election, pick came out that palmer luckey was secretly finding a group that was posting insulting billboards of hillary clinton. suddenly he disappeared. he said he was fired. mark zuckerberg said he was not fired for political reasons. it's been a snafu for facebook. palmer luckey has this reputation as the trumpiest reputation in silicon valley. then he starts a company, whose first project is surveilling the mexican border right at the time the trump border policies are really building up. and that immediately fed into a debate on should tech be refusing to build things like this? then you have the trump administration, already causing trouble in silicon valley and border surveillance, and they jumped into that. jason: one of the models of silicon valley of late is being connected to founders find and the folks associated in that orbit. how does that play into this story? josh: founders fund is the i

just price where the general cone from oh well the founder of the company palmer luckey named his company the flame of the west it's elvis. from the lord of the rain he's not just a murder with but he has a sense of whimsy and imagination and lots of our tax money. fighting is called the lucky and i'm the founder of it are all i want to come one of the major defense contractors the building technology for the united states government and i'm i'm proud to say that i'm happy to say that he's a great thinker over a generation sure ian looks like a friendly villain from the incredibles movie on an all you can eat jamaican resort vacation. but there's so much more to him meaning about a $1000000000.00 in government contracts we expect to make the next generation of autonomous smart weapons like i can't even operate a men's razor. well they're not time to miss yet the interceptors still need human permission to attack great permission technically my toaster news for mission for me to burn the toast but it does it anyway. yes i understand people are panicked activists with the campaign to stop k

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