Oculus and Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey speaks during the Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal on November 8, 2018.Ex-Facebook and Oculus exec Palmer Luckey is reportedly hosting a fundraiser event for President Donald Trump at his Southern California home on Sunday.Luckey is a high-profile figure in the tech world, having founded the VR startup Oculus before selling it to Facebook in 2014.
He left Oculus in 2017, shortly after reports emerged that he backed a pro-Trump group during the 2016 presidential election. Mark Zuckerberg testified in 2018 that Luckey's firing "was not because of a political view." Luckey has since founded Anduril, a military-contracting startup that was recently awarded a contract to build a "virtual" border wall for the Trump administration.Ex-Facebook and Oculus exec Palmer Luckey will reportedly host a fundraiser for President Donald Trump this weekend as he vies for reelection in early November.
Luckey will host the fundraiser at his and his wife's home in Southern California on Sunday. Tickets for the event range from $2,800 to $100,000 a person.A spokesperson for Anduril did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment. The report comes as President Trump attempts to raise funds for the home stretch of his reelection campaign. As
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