Episodes featuring Joe Lonsdale
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Aaron Cannon of Outset joins Joe Lonsdale and Jack Moshkovich to discuss how AI-moderated interviews are disrupting the $140 billion market research industry by combining survey scale with interview depth.
Joe Lonsdale and Patrick Bet-David discuss working with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, covering how their contrasting styles shaped Palantir and what it takes to build in hard markets.
Scott Wu and Russell Kaplan of Cognition join Joe Lonsdale to talk about building Devin, the first autonomous AI agent for software engineering, and how it changes the way teams work.
Joe Lonsdale talks with Blend CEO Nima Ghamsari about how AI agents are reshaping financial services and why companies that don't adapt now risk becoming obsolete.
Joe Lonsdale and Coleman Hughes discuss the Western origins of abolitionism and argue that America's founding principles created the internal pressure needed to end slavery.
Joe Lonsdale interviews Scott Nolan, SpaceX veteran and Founders Fund partner, about his uranium enrichment startup General Matter and why the U.S. needs domestic nuclear fuel to power AI and re-industrialization.
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale argues AI will double median American wealth the way industrialization did after 1870, and explains why the cultural response matters as much as the technology.
Coleman Hughes joins Joe Lonsdale to argue that maximalist readings of slavery's legacy distort history, and that colorblind policy and economic growth are the real paths to racial progress.
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar and Joe Lonsdale discuss why breakthrough innovation requires protecting rule-breaking nonconformists from bureaucratic resistance, using examples from WWII to modern defense tech.
Jack Altman talks with investor and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale about why he is bullish on AI, the fight over AI in defense, building in unpopular areas, and why he thinks America needs more courage.
Investor Eric Scott argues that the venture world's fixation on AI has left hundreds of fast-growing companies in healthcare, finance, and insurance deeply undervalued, and explains how he targets them.
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale joins Shawn Ryan to discuss America's AI and industrial revival, covering data centers, energy bottlenecks, nuclear power, and the road to AGI.
Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary at the State Department, joins Joe Lonsdale to discuss Pax Technica, a strategy for U.S. AI dominance through supply chain control and allied partnerships.
Joe Lonsdale and Shawn Ryan debate whether US military action against Iran serves American interests, covering AI-driven targeting, institutional distrust, and the real costs of engagement.
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar and Joe Lonsdale discuss why America's defense industry has weakened and what it takes to rebuild it, from protecting unconventional thinkers to scaling manufacturing.
Joe Lonsdale joins Chris Williamson to share the mental frameworks he learned working with Peter Thiel, covering focus, risk, and what it takes to perform at an elite level.
Ben Black, CEO of the DFC, joins Joe Lonsdale to explain how the U.S. competes with China's Belt and Road by investing $25 billion in energy, minerals, and tech across allied nations.
Joe Lonsdale and Will Fry discuss how small business owners can use AI to grow revenue rather than cut costs, and why trades and service businesses are a big opportunity right now.
Richard Sandler, childhood friend and defense lawyer of Michael Milken, tells Joe Lonsdale how ambitious prosecutors used coercive tactics to imprison a financial innovator whose high-yield bond market funded major...
Joe Lonsdale and JD Ross discuss how AI tools are changing software engineering, letting small teams ship features in days and threatening mid-market software companies.