The American Dream: A Tale of Two Trajectories Palmer Luckey, billionaire co founder of Oculus and Anduril, has been touting the American Dream as alive and well.
At 19, he received a $1 million investment from Peter Thiel to start Oculus, which was later sold to Facebook (now Meta) for $2 billion when Luckey was just 21.
This rags to riches story has been hailed as proof that America still offers unparalleled opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation. Luckey's success is not an outlier.