Joe Lonsdale
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"Not a single one of our full-time engineers right now writes code anymore. They do everything through Codex, cloud code, or cursor."
"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."
"Not a single one of our full-time engineers right now writes code anymore. They do everything through Codex, cloud code, or cursor."
"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."
"Cognition is growing really well that we're obviously big investors in"
"You basically be irresponsible to run like a big real estate operation not using Adaptir."
"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.'"
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"People in those states are going to be able to actually pay to use Joby maybe to go to the airport."
"Anduril is building their autonomous fighter jets there, too. So, I guess great minds think alike. Palmer said the same thing."
"Joe's also co-founded and back category defining businesses like OpenGov, Saronic, and Anduril"
"when I was at FireEye, we had 4,500 engineers. I can't imagine having that many at this point."
"learn engineering and CAD on the job is pretty amazing without a four-year degree"
"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."
"Every time SpaceX launches a rocket, it doesn't go well. You don't want to be sued, right?"
"Yeah, exactly. I shouldn't leave out Tesla. You have these amazing robots coming."
"The Chinese and Russian mafia were stealing all of our money and made our competitors go bankrupt. I was just an intern back then."
"I was an intern at PayPal when you were doing that."
"I was at PayPal as a kid while I was at Stanford and the Chinese and Russian mafia were stealing all of our money"
"Our Apollo series of moon landings"
"So it's something like Databricks for organizing your database infrastructure. Something like Palantir of course which has been playing a key role there"
"That's Anthropic, OpenAI, XAI, you know, Gemini, Meta, the Chinese models"
"OpenAI will likely continue being a consumer business and Anthropic is clearly a developer infrastructure business."
"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"
"right now Nvidia dominates that with Intel and AMD. That's over 99%, but there's a lot of new chips companies, too"
"I was on the Zoom with Dario who runs Anthropic today"
"So cognition, right, is a pretty interesting company... it'll do well over a billion dollars revenue this year"
"one of the ones we helped build a decade ago is the leading enterprise software for title insurance... called Qualia"
"we led the series A in a company called Bedrock last year. And these are a bunch of guys from Waymo... building autonomous excavators"
"I was on the Zoom with Dario who runs Anthropic today. If you guys haven't read his latest piece, I think it's actually a very good piece"
"We invested in Zen payroll it became Gusto was doing very well."
"His new company is called Armaden and we were obviously involved in the seed."