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Joe Lonsdale

(1982) Businessperson

98 quotes in 316 categories

Joe Lonsdale warns that road congestion is turning America’s transport system into a health and time drain. He argues that investors who build, buy, and fix companies keep the economy growing. He also says engineering talent is the most precious resource for tech firms.

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Joe Lonsdale is a businessperson.

Quick Facts About Joe Lonsdale

Born: September 12, 1982
Profession: Businessperson

About Joe Lonsdale

American entrepreneur and venture capitalist... | Joseph Lonsdale is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He co-founded Palantir Technologies, Addepar, and OpenGov, and co-founded and works as the managing partner at the technology investment firm 8VC.

Quotes by Joe Lonsdale

Backing a company is a serious business.

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I work 110-hour weeks.

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Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy.

Economics

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One of the most important jobs of a great leader is to attract great talent.

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Palantir is the new wave of companies solving big problems for big industries.

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I'm always investing and building things at the same time.

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Great leaders inspire incredible loyalty in their followers and subordinates.

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Funding has not kept pace with demand for expanded lanes and well-maintained roadways.

Demand

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Hard work makes us better people and helps our communities flourish.

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The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

Data

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If our society was a lot wealthier, I think we'd also probably have better education systems - this is pretty intuitive, I…

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The human mind and body remains the most complex, powerful machine on the planet, and we will adapt and thrive in a…

Body

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Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

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When you solve big, hard problems, problems that fundamentally improve how an industry works, financial returns follow, giving you resources to do…

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Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.

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The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems.

Government

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I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing…

Argument

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Creating a billion-dollar company is hard, but being a truly great leader is even harder.

Being

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I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical…

Discipline

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While it can be overwhelming to realize how many problems there are to solve in the world, it's always inspiring to see…

Energy

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Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of…

Education

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The convertible note is a useful and common financing structure in Silicon Valley. It's a form of debt that is really more…

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Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans.…

Armed forces

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Our best and brightest must conceive of themselves as stewards of our society and confront the critical challenges of our time. It's…

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We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to…

Community

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It always struck me as pretty cool that people who changed the world often knew each other. After reading them separately, hearing…

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One of my biggest intellectual influences in my life was Alex Karp of Palantir.

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Keeping government running really well, to me, is incredibly important.

Government

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There will be trillions of dollars under Addepar. You will have tons of money and information flowing through it.

Dollars

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Applying smarter IT to genomic data may offer the potential to cure many types of cancer and other diseases.

Data

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Top technologists have a tremendous capacity - and, therefore, a tremendous responsibility - to build things that make a positive impact on…

Impact

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My experiences building Palantir and running Addepar made me aware of serious problems with government and inspired me to build a non-profit…

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The inability of middle-class people to receive loans in developing countries has had a stifling effect on economic growth and prosperity around…

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In an increasingly competitive technology world, VCs must work more and more closely with portfolio companies to develop superior technology, talent, and…

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We want to inspire everyone to recognize the positive social impact they can have if they choose to become technologists.

Impact

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We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

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As we progress as a species, we will unlock new means for enhancing our lives at every turn - and our conceptions…

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We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save…

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One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then…

Business

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Savvy, competitive investors able to build, buy, and fix companies will continue to stimulate growth by allowing us to do more with…

Business

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