Oculus Co-founder Leaves Facebook Just a Month After Instagram Co-founders

Bendan Iribe is departing to 'recharge, reflect and be creative'

The co-founder of Oculus is leaving Facebook.

Brendan Iribe, who created the viral reality platform six years ago, announced in a Facebook post today that he’s departing the company four years after selling it to Facebook. While he didn’t elaborate on the reason, Iribe—who sold the company for $3 billion along with co-founder Palmer Lucky—said his decision will make time for him to “recharge, reflect and be creative.”

“Now is when we get to pioneer the foundation of the next great computing platform and medium—this is our time to be pushing the state-of-the-art onward and upward,” he wrote.

Soon after Iribe published his Facebook post, a number of Facebook execs piled on with praise of their own in the comments section.

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