# Palmer Luckey First Degree Connections The **full directly-connected map** for [[Palmer Luckey]] — every person, company, and institution with a documented first-degree tie, annotated by the *type* of tie. Broader than [[Palmer Luckey Inner Circle]]; this is the whole one-hop neighborhood. The capital view is [[Musk-Thiel Funding Map]]. > "First degree" = a tie Luckey holds personally (co-founder, funder, board, customer, documented associate). ## People — by tie type | Person | Tie type | Note | |---|---|---| | [[Trae Stephens]] | Co-founder | [[Anduril]] chairman; [[Founders Fund]] | | [[Brian Schimpf]] · [[Matt Grimm]] · [[Joe Chen]] | Co-founders | [[Anduril]] | | [[Peter Thiel]] | Patron | [[Founders Fund]] led Anduril rounds | | [[Joe Lonsdale]] | Co-founder (bank) | [[Erebor]]; [[8VC]] | | [[Alex Karp]] | Defense-tech peer | The reluctant-warrior counterpart | | [[Donald Trump]] | Political patron | Fundraiser host; inaugural donor | | [[Elon Musk]] | Defense-tech peer | Overlapping procurement orbit | | [[Elizabeth Warren]] | Adversary | "Crony capitalism" probe of [[Erebor]] | | [[Mohammed bin Salman]] | Gulf counterpart | Defense-tech courting | ## Companies & entities (Luckey-founded or Luckey-held) The holdings detail is in [[Palmer Luckey Holdings]]. First-degree entities: - [[Anduril]] (co-founder/CEO) · [[Oculus]] (founder; sold to Meta) · [[Erebor]] (co-founder; principal shareholder) · [[Arsenal-1]] (Anduril mega-factory) ## Institutions & customers | Entity | Tie | |---|---| | U.S. Army / DoD | $20B IDIQ + multiple programs (via [[Anduril]]) | | [[Space Force]] | Anduril enterprise pool | | Meta (ex-Facebook) | Acquired [[Oculus]]; fired him 2017 | | Israeli defense startups | 2026 secret visit (10 firms) | ## See Also - [[Palmer Luckey Inner Circle]] — the trusted core subset - [[Palmer Luckey Holdings]] — the entity side in detail - [[Musk-Thiel Funding Map]] · [[Defense Tech Conflicts of Interest]] - [[Palmer Luckey Dossier]]