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Palmer Luckey: If your boss says they don’t care about money, you should be worried
Shaan Puri, host of the My First Million podcast, jokes that “the Silicon Valley thing is to pretend you don’t like money.”
Anduril and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey comments:
“I actually tell our employees during onboarding that if you work at a place where your boss is saying that [money is not the real objective], you should be worried. It’s one thing to say that to the press or your marketing materials, but if your employees don’t believe that at the end of the day you’re trying to make their job a fiscally responsible decision — if you’re effectively telling them that they could be making more money elsewhere and your financial success is not my priority — you should be concerned.”
That’s not to say that money should be the only objective though. Palmer comments:
“When I started Oculus, it was not because I thought it would be the thing that made the most money. There had never been a successful VR company in history, to be clear. I did it because it was something I was really passionate about. That said, one of the things that I’m most proud of in my whole career is that everyone who worked at Oculus achieved financial independence because we were able to build something incredible. I feel great that everyone who was part of that mission and supported me early on was able to make a bunch of money, and a lot of them have gone on to do incredible things.”