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Joe Lonsdale

Joe Lonsdale

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Everything Joe personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.

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AI technology uses software
"This is the most profound technology, I think, in the history of humanity. Our chief aerodynamic nemesis was absolutely giddy... He's like, 'I'm 10x as productive as I was just a few months ago.'"
Cognition uses software
"Cognition is growing really well that we're obviously big investors in"
Codex uses software
"Not a single one of our full-time engineers right now writes code anymore. They do everything through Codex, cloud code, or cursor."
From: How to build with AI in 2026 ▶ 0:03 Mar 2026
Linear uses software
"When we create a new ticket in Linear, it automatically kicks off this thing that basically creates a dev environment, which then tries to oneshot the solution and then creates a PR that we review."
From: How to build with AI in 2026 ▶ 0:18 Mar 2026
Cursor uses software
"Not a single one of our full-time engineers right now writes code anymore. They do everything through Codex, cloud code, or cursor."
From: How to build with AI in 2026 ▶ 0:06 Mar 2026
Thoren uses software
"I'm actually spending a lot of time on the email workflow myself with this company, Thoren, I think you probably heard, but I'm obsessed with it. Gave me a report yesterday. It handled like 120 of my emails for me with my team."
Adaptir uses software
"You basically be irresponsible to run like a big real estate operation not using Adaptir."
Evolution of Civilizations recommends media
"Carroll Quigley was the greatest historian and he wrote the Evolution of Civilizations and he maps out all civilizations through seven different stages"
Evolution of Everything recommends media
"I really like Matt Ridley's books and he wrote one called Evolution of Everything that was really fun about how like evolutionary systems apply to everything there"
Devon mentions software
"What are the unsolved problems for Devin to just be doing massive projects on itself in three years?"
Joby mentions product
"People in those states are going to be able to actually pay to use Joby maybe to go to the airport."
Anduril mentions product
"Anduril is building their autonomous fighter jets there, too. So, I guess great minds think alike. Palmer said the same thing."
FireEye mentions software
"when I was at FireEye, we had 4,500 engineers. I can't imagine having that many at this point."
CAD mentions software
"learn engineering and CAD on the job is pretty amazing without a four-year degree"
From: Is AI taking jobs? ▶ 0:51 Mar 2026
SpaceX mentions other
"They also think they're the best at building infrastructure. And so it's like not only is Elon building these giant things faster than everyone, but he he owns SpaceX."
Tesla mentions product
"Yeah, exactly. I shouldn't leave out Tesla. You have these amazing robots coming."
PayPal mentions software
"The Chinese and Russian mafia were stealing all of our money and made our competitors go bankrupt. I was just an intern back then."
Apollo mentions other
"Our Apollo series of moon landings"
OpenAI mentions software
"That's Anthropic, OpenAI, XAI, you know, Gemini, Meta, the Chinese models"
Waymo mentions product
"these are a bunch of guys from Waymo. Waymo is that company that drives cars from Google, right, with no one in on autonomous driving"