[ROLE TIMELINE]

John Carmack

Former ZeniMax/id Software employee, later Oculus CTO, defendant in ZeniMax case

    Government
    Corporate
    Political
    | Red zones = government–corporate overlap
  

All Roles & Relationships (14)

Sector	Role	Entity	Period
CORPORATE	Founder	id Software LLC	2009–present
OTHER	Business Partner/Collaborator	Palmer Luckey	2012–present
CORPORATE	Affiliation	Oculus VR	2013–present
CORPORATE	Contractor	Salient Motion Inc.	2014–present
OTHER	Legal/Judicial Proceeding	Judge James V. Selna	2014–present
CORPORATE	Legal	Total Recall Technologies LLC	2014–present
CORPORATE	Affiliation	Facebook Technologies LLC	2014–present
OTHER	Business Partner/Collaborator	Brendan Iribe	2014–present
OTHER	Legal/Judicial Proceeding	Judge Karen E. Scott	2014–present
OTHER	Business Partner/Collaborator	Mark Zuckerberg	2014–present
OTHER	Legal/Counsel	Babak Siavoshy	2015–present
OTHER	Legal/Judicial Proceeding	Judge William Alsup	2015–present
OTHER	Legal/Counsel	Nicholas Alley	2015–present
OTHER	Oversight	Securities and Exchange Commission	2022–present

Methodology

This timeline visualises documented roles and relationships for John Carmack using dates recorded in the entity connection graph. Roles are classified into sectors (government, corporate, political) based on relationship type and target entity type.

Conflict zones are periods where government/institutional roles overlap with corporate positions. These overlaps are not inherently improper but represent structural conditions that merit public scrutiny — the same person simultaneously holds a position involving public trust and a position involving private financial interest.

Date precision varies: some connections record only a year, others a full date. Ongoing roles (no end date) are drawn to the present year. Committee memberships are drawn from official congressional records where available.