Palantir, Getting Woke Out of Tech & the Future of Healthcare | Joe Lonsdale Interview

The Rubin Report

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🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Joe Lonsdale (Co-founder of Palantir, entrepreneur, venture capitalist) about how Silicon Valley got woke, Palantir rethought how governments handle big data analytics, and how libertarian principles could help make healthcare and the housing market more affordable for millions of Americans. Joe begins by telling us how he got involved in entrepreneurship and the early days of companies like Facebook and Paypal. Joe discusses why so much wealth gets squandered when it is managed by a big government bureaucracy instead of innovators like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk who excel at creating value. Joe gives his theories on how big tech companies like Google ended up so woke. He thinks companies could avoid this fate if they focused on how to hire employees that are aligned with their core mission. Joe also describes how pushing healthcare into more of a free market system could break the lobbying stranglehold that the health insurance and pharmaceutical industry have on the market. This competition would result in far lower prices for prescription drugs and other types of medicine. Joe also discusses the future of subscription business models on the internet and why he has invested in Locals.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I don't know exactly how the woke people got in charge here in so many places,
0:03.9	as partially because they're so loud. I think there's 5 or 10% of people here who really believe in that stuff.
0:08.0	And they've gotten very good. I think it came from the universities. You look at our big tech companies,
0:11.9	the culture at Google is really modeled off of Stanford because it's all the PhDs,
0:15.1	same thing with a lot of the other ones. And so these tech companies are basically taking a culture
0:18.8	from a university that's, you know, that's been broken for a few decades. And these woke people
0:24.1	are really good at punishing people who stand up to them and trying to get them. And so it's not
0:27.8	worth people's time to push back. And so if you're just trying to your job, you're just, you know,
0:31.9	you're just, you're just, you're just doing, you're just doing what you can. And these people
0:35.8	get to be in charge. It's really bad.
0:49.4	I'm Dave Rubin and this is the Rubin Report Locals Week. Joining me today is an entrepreneur,
0:54.1	an investor and policymaker at the Cicero Institute. Joe Lanzdale, welcome to the Rubin Report.
1:00.2	Thanks, Dave. Good to be on. Joe, I've wanted to have you on for for quite some time because you're
1:05.2	involved in in about a billion things that sort of, ancillarily are all about the things that I
1:11.3	talk about on this show from tech to politics, free speech, education, all of it. But first,
1:18.7	let's start with those those two words that I mentioned up front, entrepreneur and investor.
1:23.2	I feel like when you say that to people, people think, oh, you were just kind of like born that way.
1:28.1	How does somebody become an entrepreneur and investor? I suspect a lot of my audience would like
1:33.1	to have those two tags. Well, you know, there's a lot of different types of this. But for me,
1:38.7	it's about you see things and they work a certain way and you're frustrated and you want to fix
1:42.8	them. So I think, I think, I think having a vision of how the world should work, this is not how
1:46.9	it's working right now. That'll lead one to being an entrepreneur because that's basically the only
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