&gt; <i>Before I met them, I’d assumed that Zuckerberg and Luckey would have much in common. They’re both hackers who started valuable companies before they turned 20, but the similarities pretty much end there.</i><p>&gt; <i>...</i><p>&gt; <i>Luckey does not come from money, nor did he have access to the prep-school, Ivy League fast track that Zuckerberg and so many of Silicon Valley’s young masters started on.</i><p>People are still surprised that poor white people and rich white people are not the same. Wealth divides far more than race in America.<p>What makes Palmer Luckey all the more badass is that he created a product from scratch that changed the world. Zuck cloned Friendster and leveraged the exclusivity of a &quot;Harvard social network&quot; to bootstrap his site.<p>John Carmack, also from a poor background, is the one who believed in Oculus first. He is most responsible for helping Palmer Luckey make VR happen. They&#x27;re the big heros here, not the rich kid who bought it for $2 billion.