GP has since started a defense contractor. I highly doubt this is a naive person.

That's a non sequitur and your viewpoint is vindictive, uncharitable, and unreasonable.

Palmer Luckey was in his very early 20s and had never been involved in an acquisition before. He acknowledged his mistake and his explanation makes complete sense. Even much more experienced people are prone to making this kind of mistake in the honeymoon period of an acquisition.

No kidding. I'm shocked that all these perfect and wildly successful people even have time to post on hacker news :p

Can you explain the leap from someone starting a defense contractor to them not being naive a few years earlier in their life about corporate acquisitions?

Without commenting on this situation, if you're worried about selling something to a large entity who might later change their mind about how they use your thing, you don't usually start selling to militaries.

Sorry, who's GP?

Grandparent - In this context, that’s Palmer Luckey.