Joe Lonsdale
28 statements across 5 episodes · 12 bullish · 5 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 24, 2016 by Beezer Clarkson · said 30 times in 13 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (7), Zachary Bookman (6), Shyam Sankar (5), Mike Maples (3), Shervin Pishevar (2), David Teten (2), Garry Tan (1), Dylan Serota (1)
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2025 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Shervin Pishevar: What Really Happened in the Firing of Travis Kalanick | E1245 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 13 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
2020 3 mentions in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Founders Must Use VCs as a Barometer, How to Make Distributed Teams Work Successfully & The Biggest Mistake People Make Early In Their Career with Dylan Serota, Founder @ Terminal
- 20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
- 20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- 20VC: More $ Raised This Year Than The Past 15, War Chests Being Built & Decline In First Time Funds: So What The Heck Is Happening In Venture with Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director @ Sapphire Ventures
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Joe Lonsdale, oldest first
Oct 24, 2016 neutral
Dec 14, 2016
Tan turned down being Palantir's first engineer due to media sentiment
“Why did I turn down being first engineer at Palantir? I spent a lot of time trying to figure that out, and it actually came out of this thinking, because this is why I'm very, very careful about it, that when I was 23 and I got an offer from one of the best in…”
May 25, 2018 positive
Jul 7, 2020
Lonsdale: Overruling his negative vote at 8VC requires a supermajority
“On the investment side, I am not the single decision maker. We have a full investment committee. We vote. The only rule there is that if I vote against something, it requires like a super majority to overrule me. But in general, we go by majority vote.”
Jul 7, 2020 negative
Jul 7, 2020
Lonsdale: Historical frameworks are essential for understanding tech industry evolution
“And if you want to think like a great tech investor over time, you'd understand the forces that are shaping companies and how companies evolve and how industries evolve. And so for me, the frameworks you use for understanding history Are very analogous to the …”
Jul 7, 2020 negative
Jul 7, 2020
Lonsdale: Overemphasize employees' uniqueness to cultivate great talent
“Where the best way to interact with them is to help them discover their true skills and then calculate their true skills and to make them very proud of them to the point where they do see themselves as unique. And of course they are unique, but it's fine to ov…”
Jul 7, 2020 positive
Jul 7, 2020 neutral
Jul 7, 2020 neutral
Mar 11, 2024 positive
Mar 11, 2024
Mar 11, 2024 positive
Lonsdale: Passing US State Legislation Costs a Few Hundred Thousand Dollars
“For a couple 100,000 dollars, you could take a law that's a really good law. It's going to help a lot of people and hire people and go testify. And there's a good chance you can get it done in, in a state where you're making a big difference”
Mar 11, 2024
Mar 11, 2024 negative
Lonsdale Lost Hundreds of Millions by Holding Wish Stock Post-Distribution
“I personally did not get any out. My angel fund was able to get a lot out to, for everyone else. And I took the distributions, didn't sell them. So unfortunately I didn't end up, you know, I probably lost a few hundred million dollars from not, For not selling…”
Mar 11, 2024 negative
Lonsdale: Top University Students Pursue Conformity Over Truth
“I think you're taught to shut up and virtue signal and be very careful what you say. And that's the exact opposite of what a liberal education is supposed to be. You think these kids at these top universities are pursuing truth? They're not pursuing truth. The…”
Mar 11, 2024 bullish
Mar 11, 2024 positive
Lonsdale: For-Profit Startups Generate Greater Positive Impact Than Non-Profits
“OpenGov actually had more positive impact than the nonprofit ever could, because with OpenGov, you can get a bunch of best engineers, a bunch of the best business and salespeople, and you actually can get something that's self-sustaining to go to thousands of …”
Mar 11, 2024 bullish
Mar 11, 2024 positive
Mar 11, 2024 positive
Mar 11, 2024 neutral
Mar 11, 2024 negative
Mar 11, 2024 positive
Lonsdale: Donald Trump's Team Is More Likely to Fix Broken US Institutions
“I think Trump's extremely imperfect. He has all sorts of issues that bother me. You know, I think it's very problematic. I wish we had other people, but I think his side Is more likely to push these things in the right direction in terms of the stuff that's re…”
Mar 11, 2024 positive
Lonsdale: Speaking Publicly Has Not Hindered Building Billion-Dollar Companies
“I say the vast majority of what I think, as you could tell when you go and look at things that I've gotten in trouble for now, it hasn't stopped me from building many, many billion dollar companies. It hasn't stopped me from raising a lot of great funds becaus…”
Mar 11, 2024 bullish