How a Few Tech Entrepreneurs Changed the World | Joe Lonsdale

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw

Politics, Energy, Healthcare, News, World, Society & Culture, Regulations, Finance, America, Freedom

4.6 • 16K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Joe Lonsdale has dedicated his life to figuring out how the world works, and how it could work better. For over two decades he’s partnered with the brightest minds in Silicon Valley to identify conceptual gaps in everything from healthcare to education to finance to defense, and build innovative companies that push humanity towards a better future.

We talk about the early history of Silicon Valley, how everything changed when his mentor and business partner Peter Thiel emerged on the scene, building next generation defense weapons systems, frameworks to understand and invest in the next technology waves, disrupting the higher education system with the University of Austin, and much more.

Joe Lonsdale is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of Palantir and managing partner of the venture capital firm 8VC. Follow him on Twitter at @JTLonsdale.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	That all men are created.
0:04.0	Because the number of Congress I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.8	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:18.0	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.0	Welcome back folks.
0:25.0	Today I want to talk about an interesting subject.
0:28.0	Innovation.
0:29.0	I do a lot with innovation.
0:31.0	I do a healthcare summit every year where we get about an award for some sort of amazing
0:37.8	new technology or drug development that has occurred and somebody deserves recognition
0:42.5	for it.
0:43.5	Just last week actually we wrapped up our energy innovation summit where we had CEOs from
0:49.4	all over the country come in and talk about their new interesting technologies, whether
0:53.9	it was in hydrogen, nuclear, carbon capture, what have you.
0:58.4	There is probably no better or well-known innovative tech entrepreneur than Joe Lonsdale.
1:04.9	So Joe, thanks for being on.
1:05.9	Thanks for having me, Dan.
1:06.9	I don't know if I got that right.
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