Joe Lonsdale
Joe Lonsdale is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur who serves as co-founder and managing partner of 8VC, an early-stage technology investment firm managing over $6 billion in capital. He is best known as a co-founder of Palantir Technologies, the data analytics company he helped establish in 2004 alongside Peter Thiel, and has since founded more than a dozen companies including Addepar and OpenGov. He also co-founded the Cicero Institute, a public policy organization that has passed legislation across roughly 30 states, and serves as founding chairman of the University of Austin.
“Keith Raboi, Joe Lonsdale going for Airwallex. Unbelievably again.”
Source→“The allegations have consistently changed... they have got more and more diminished over time as the arguments have weakened.”
Source→“'I want to invest in you. I want to help you start this company...'”
“They actually backed us in the very beginning. We started with APC and it was because a conversation I had with Joe”
Source→“Joe Lonsdale has made a version of the same point, that he is rich but would pay 90% in taxes if it actually worked. Friedberg agreed on the same condition — if the money actually produces results.”
“Joe Lonsdale (8VC) joining Sable's board”
“Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale says many CEOs are using 'AI productivity' as cover for layoffs that really stem from overhiring, lowered standards, or missed growth targets during the 2021-to-2023 boom.”
Source→“"There's just going to be all these ways that jets and airplanes are going to be like 10 or 20 times as efficient in the next decade... There's massive things that would take him three months before you do it in an afternoon now with his aerodynamicist." — Joe Lonsdale [00:07:53]”
Source→“"He sold it for one point eight billion dollars after like 14 years. And it was like paddling through the dirt." — Joe Lonsdale [00:01:41]”
Source→“"There's not nearly enough primates now. And like no one will touch it. So we started a company to provide safer human medicine... We're providing like massive numbers of primates, working with a bunch of biotech firms. And no one will touch it because they're afraid." — Joe Lonsdale [00:23:22]”
Source→“"I actually hired Scott Wu as an 18 year old 10 years ago. Like he'd won the gold medal three years in a row at IOI and, you know, top in the world the previous year." — Joe Lonsdale [00:33:34]”
Source→“"We have Cistero Institute, which gets things done in like 20 states. So we're trying to get a few states to create an AI sandbox where we can very safely prove out dozens and then hundreds of kind of primary care workflows." — Joe Lonsdale [00:16:17]”
Source→“Podcast: Uncapped with Jack Altman, Episode #51, Joe Lonsdale from 8VC”
Source→“"I think Scott's been great at General Matter." — Joe Lonsdale [00:32:11]”
Source→“"I think NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel are like 99% of the value right now. And that 1% is probably going to change to like 15% or 20% from new things, as we might guess, because there's so many new architectures. And so we're doing a little bit there." — Joe Lonsdale [00:31:23]”
Source→“"The stuff that we figured out at Palantir and the stuff they figured out at Palantir turned out to be relevant to a ton of other AI companies. Like the center of the AI world in terms of what's working in many ways was right around Palantir." — Joe Lonsdale [00:06:01]”
Source→“"If you took the normal path without AI and things we were building and knew we needed to build and assume we needed to build, we're taking the 2030s and 2040s and we're packing them into the next two or three years because so much is happening right now." — Joe Lonsdale [00:07:25]”
Source→“"I think Anduril is the biggest Neoprime and it's going to make the most money." — Joe Lonsdale [00:25:05]”
Source→“"Dino at Saronic, he's built more big ships than anyone else. Fastest built ships since World War II that are big." — Joe Lonsdale [00:21:35]”
Source→“"Epirus is doing really well shooting down drones with microwave." — Joe Lonsdale [00:25:28]”
Source→“"It's a bunch of guys from Waymo with me, Boris. And he's doing excavation and it's working, right? So it's AI driven excavation, which is 25% of the construction spend in the US." — Joe Lonsdale [00:27:10]”
Source→“"It's like more than doubling again this year and the billions of revenue. And it's just such a great executioner." — Joe Lonsdale [00:29:26]”
Source→“"He's founding with us and it's called Noho Labs. And it's growing like crazy. This is one of them." — Joe Lonsdale [00:36:50]”
Source→“"General Matter we're invested in, which I think is doing really important stuff." — Joe Lonsdale [00:31:48]”
Source→“Builds drones and counter-drone systems for military use, raised a $34 million round from investors including Joe Lonsdale and Lux Capital.”
Source→“Builds drones and counter-drone systems for military use, raised a $34 million round from investors including Joe Lonsdale and Lux Capital.”
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