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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where 8VC comes up on American Optimist, Sourcery, 20VC, the Neon Show, Capital Allocators
Saronic's 4 Co-Founders on Building a $9.25B Shipbuilder | Part III
- ▶ 8:22 Doug Busch Dino was here in the founder of residence program at eight BC.
- ▶ 26:17 Rob Lehman It was a pretty serendipitous, uh, moment, and there's been a lot of serendipity involved with, with Cerronic, where stars have aligned at the right times, right places, but, uh, I was actually doing some consulting work for ATVC and Joe…
- ▶ 36:57 Vibhav Ganesh After college, found myself at ABC Venture Fund in, in San Francisco, which I guess is not too uncommon for electrical engineers to go into finance, but maybe, I don't know. 2 times in the scene
Dino Mavrookas: America Needs to Build Ships Again
- ▶ 20:09 Dino Mavrookas We talked about APC and Joe Lonsdale and I know Drew sent in a bunch of questions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:58 Molly O'Shea So starting and founding the company in 2022 out of ABC's build program, what was that 2 times in the scene
Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
- ▶ 24:53 Pete Florence Part of why, you know, I've always enjoyed spending, uh, you know, time with the AVC team is, you know, some time after we put out that model, which was in November, I remember seeing a post which was dated October from, from Vivek, you…
Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:20 Jordan Black A lot of our existing investors coming into the mix, such as Sequoia, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, APC, Andreessen Horowitz.
Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
- ▶ 0:38 Joe Lonsdale And then we're gonna break it down with Alice Kolesitsch and Jack, two of my partners at AVC, to help you understand how to think about what's happening in the next five or 10 years, how our investors and builders are approaching it,…
How AI Agents Are Transforming This $140 Billion Industry · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:54 Joe Lonsdale We backed him at AVC last year.
- ▶ 23:02 Jack Moskovich Ok, the funny thing is, so we've had a couple of APC build companies use the product to do really early research before the- Before they start building.
AI Investing Strategy for 2026 · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:10 Joe Lonsdale He was at Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, built companies with Max Levchin, and also built companies with us at ADC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:02 Joe Lonsdale And speaking of entrepreneurship, you also helped, uh, Tony and Clay at AVC start Harbor Health, which is this big local healthcare company.
- ▶ 11:16 Eric Scott And then of course, HVC that has this insanely good build program where the 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:59 Eric Scott They will be generation defining companies, and it is a good strategy to give money to ATVC and Founders Fund and Thrive to invest in these companies.
- ▶ 27:00 Eric Scott Um, but on the other hand, there is just some sort of dollar and cents explanation for this, where if we wanted to do that, we would need way larger AUM, and then we would find ourselves competing with ATVC, competing with Founders Fund,
How AI Agents are Changing Investing · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 10:06 John Milles-Kiriazzi Alex and Danny and the teammate VC who are also working on this problem, uh, kind of gave me the inspiration to, to go and start this business and, and, uh, try to build a platform to automate and improve portfolio reporting, reporting…
Jake Paul on Endorsing Trump & the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 4:42 Jeff Wu Like I think with eight VC, I think goes back down to authenticity and having principles.
- ▶ 8:41 Jeff Wu Like I think when you built HVC, I think you guys are quite
- ▶ 30:37 Jeff Wu I think the quality of Jake Medwell, APC infrastructure, and I think just like the product execution, it just felt like the foundations
Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:24 Joe Lonsdale There's trillions of dollars being invested, and my two partners at AVC, Alex and Jack, are right on the ground. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:47 Joe Lonsdale We have two of our partners here at ATVC, and we're going to talk about the AI world. 3 times in the scene
The Secret Team Fixing America's Broken Systems · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 29:34 Joe Gebbia That's at the level of Airbnb or Apple or many of the companies that you invest in through AVC.
The VC case for 'full stack deeptech'
- ▶ 23:48 Ian Rountree Um, and there's, you know, a, a much better funded company incubated by ABC called Chaos Industries, which, um,
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 45:16 Erik Torenberg Lonsdale feels like he's more hands, he's got the ABC universe, but then his, his, um, other initiative, he's like quick to institutionalize something, whether it's like a think tank or like, you know, it's no coincidence that, you know,…
How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- ▶ 4:05 Bhaskar Ghosh Ah, at AVC and at a personal level, ah, when we do builds, when I think about a new thesis, we ask the question why now?
- ▶ 17:23 Bhaskar Ghosh At HBC we both build companies, we incubate, but we also invest massively.
- ▶ 1:05:03 Bhaskar Ghosh The type of founders you need, and that's something I have learned in my life as a VC for now seven and a half years and at eight VC is, I think go to market will remain a very important
He made 2 key changes —then grew to $100M ARR in 2 years & exited for $2B. | Harish Abbott, Found... · PMF Show
- ▶ 14:54 Harish Abbott Uh, in fact, we raised it from a fund called Eight VC, which is founded by Joe Lonsdale, and they were coincidentally thinking about the same idea. 3 times in the scene
George Hotz Goes OFF | Tweet Reactions
- ▶ 14:18 unnamed speaker They recently raised two hundred and seventy-five million, led by eight VC with participation from many top VCs and strategics.
The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale
Meme Lord CEO Raises $22.5M Series A for Hello Patient · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 11:57 Alex Cohen Yeah, so we raised 3.8 originally, then eight VC, we were like, maybe like five months, no, like four months in, and, um, the partner Sebastian at eight VC, we were like doing a demo, I'm showing him how intricate, like the internal… 3 times in the scene
How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 2:10 Molly O'Shea It feels like ABC is at the center of the American mission.
- ▶ 3:01 Molly O'Shea Above all that, your team has built ABC up to what it is today. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:29 Drew Oetting The predominant way now is that we have a group of, um, three or six EIRs at any time that are, you know, they're, they're full-time employees at APC, but they're working only on sort of the process of either coming to an idea or getting… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:41 Drew Oetting And it varies because the, what we're trying to do is we try to launch a company with as much unfair advantage as possible. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:00 Drew Oetting And, and Viv, you know, he actually, the CTO, he was, he was an AVC fellow back in the day, um, and then worked at Standard Metrics and at Andrel, and then, you know, was ready to build his company and came and joined us, so it's, it's…
He went viral at 11 y/o—built the world's best dictation app, then raised a $30M Series A. | Tana... · PMF Show
- ▶ 26:34 unnamed speaker Raised about four and a half million dollars a couple of weeks later from, uh, incredible VCs like NEA and eight VC.
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
- ▶ 23:24 Aaron Cannon Uh, so eight, eight BC did the, by the way, guys, this is awesome. 2 times in the scene
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:54:38 Ben Gilbert John Bertrand, the CEO of Digital Diagnostics, an advisor at EightVC, and a former Epic employee.
How to build a $100M+ newsletter business
- ▶ 1:03:54 Austin Rief I believe he worked at ATVC with Joe Longsdale, and he started this magazine.
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 1:49 Jason Calacanis Of course, he is a venture capitalist, the founder of Eight VC.
$2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 38:09 Zach Bookman And this is the obvious stuff from using it in how we work, using it in how we develop software, how we code, including some tools in the AVC portfolio.
Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- ▶ 47:45 John Coogan Eight VC, Y Combinator, Hadrian, Allen Control Systems, and many more.
New SEC Chair, Bitcoin, xAI Supercomputer, UnitedHealth CEO murder, with Gavin Baker & Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:07 Jason Calacanis Sax and Chamath both had the week off, so we had two amazing friends of the pod on, Gavin Baker from Atreides and Joe Lonsdale from Eight VC.
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 23:22 Steve Blank Um, but we don't speak with one voice.
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 0:27 John Coogan Um, works with Joe Lonsdale at ABC.
Alex Kolicich, 8VC | AI & Defense Tech Renaissance · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:32 Molly O'Shea Today we have Alex Kolasic, founding partner at eight BC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:46 Alex Kolicich We literally had conversations internal at AVC with our partners where we were worried about our offices getting protested. 3 times in the scene
Billionaire Entrepreneur: “America Will Collapse Without A Recession” | Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:50 Codie Sanchez Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir, huge company, started an entirely new university at the University of Austin, created an America first defense VC, eight VC, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:28 Codie Sanchez I've heard you speak at little small events here, and on a bunch of interviews, and despite you building, you know, Palantir, let's call it sixty-seven billion in what market cap, and you know, eight VC, seven, eight, ten billion dollars…
- ▶ 31:16 Codie Sanchez Like, are you going and talking to all the ATVC companies?
This AI Sea Drone Could Destroy A Submarine? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 8:10 Joe Lonsdale A hundred percent, and we started with you at the ABC Build program with you as the founder and CEO. 3 times in the scene
He Predicted Putin's Invasion. Now He Predicts When China Will Invade Taiwan. · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 53:10 Dmitri Alperovitch I know you guys at ABC have as well in, in a lot of these areas and batteries and, uh, and nuclear, et cetera.
Electronic Warfare and Real-Life Force Fields! Epirus CEO Andy Lowery · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:33 Joe Lonsdale We started EPRES out of the APC build program in 2018.
Wealth Creation For Employees Explained By Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor) I The Neon Show
- ▶ 12:12 Sri Batchu Uh, and then even my most recent, uh, role, I got connected, uh, via investors at, uh, at a big capital venture.
From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview
- ▶ 15:20 Joe Lonsdale My number one, my number one is HVC and HVC has a build program, which is my favorite part of it.
I Spent 7 Days With The Richest Men In Texas
- ▶ 19:17 Shaan Puri I have like my main one or two things, like eight BC and starting, you know, one company.
Morgan Housel: Understanding Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Other Outliers in Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 43:44 Molly O'Shea He's founding partner at ABC, and he was talking about how he thinks that 60% of funds are going to disappear.
Joe Lonsdale: The Future of TikTok; Is it a Danger to US National Security? | E1125 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:58 Joe Lonsdale And then obviously as an investor in AVC, we have so many others with our big themes right now. 2 times in the scene
Alex Kolicich, 8VC: Exodus of Venture Capital, AI Predictions · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:22 Molly O'Shea Today, we have Alex Coliseach, founding partner at EightBC, which raised their fifth fund last March with eight hundred and eighty million in new capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:55 Molly O'Shea Well, to begin, so you co-founded ATVC over eight years ago now. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:16 Molly O'Shea Like, I love the number eight, but where does it come from in eight VC information eight?
Ep 75: Leadership Lessons with Intuit Founder & Silicon Valley Legend Scott Cook · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:28 Joe Lonsdale We hosted over 60 of our CEOs at HVC at a recent summit in Napa Valley, and he shared a lot of his leadership lessons, gave a lot of tips on the types of things he coaches the best CEOs on, and we're lucky to be able to share it with you…
American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- ▶ 1:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Today, I have a very good friend with me, Bhaskar Ghosh, partner at ATVC. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:27 Bhaskar Ghosh Uh, especially, you know, we from ABC bring a unique background.
- ▶ 20:26 Bhaskar Ghosh But our portfolio in AVC, in a fairly accelerated way, a lot of the engineering teams are located here. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:34 Bhaskar Ghosh Palantir was founded by the founder of ABC. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:14 Bhaskar Ghosh Look, I, I, we are, AVC is not doing India market right now.
- ▶ 1:11:15 Bhaskar Ghosh You, me, and ABC and New York.
Ep 73: Lessons from Palantir & How Candid Health Is Fixing the $280B Healthcare Billing Fiasco · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 20:29 Joe Lonsdale We've been involved with the company obviously at AVC since, since, since early on. 2 times in the scene
Michael Eisenberg and Adi Levanon: Israeli Resilience in Crisis | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:38 Adi Levanon There is now, um, a wonderful, uh, supportive, um, letter being posted, being, you know, signed by, I think now there's a 150 different venture capital funds globally that have signed on from, you know, eight VC to upfront to Bain to all…
Alex Karp On The Future Of AI And Building A Multi Billion-Dollar Company · Joe Lonsdale
Ep 56: A Philosopher Reinventing Construction? Maria Davidson & the Story of Kojo · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:53 Joe Lonsdale We stole her away to HVC and got to work with her in the technology world.
Ep 52: Yitz Applbaum and a Modern Middle East Renaissance · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:42 Joe Lonsdale No, I'm Dale, the founding partner of APG.
Kimmy Scotti: How to Spot (and Build) the Next Big Thing · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:57 Joe Lonsdale Really excited to have my friend and HVC business partner Kimmy Scotty here with me today.
- ▶ 18:41 Kimmy Scotti We know a lot about the supply chain at APC these days, and so yes, you can definitely not trust it.
- ▶ 25:27 Kimmy Scotti Um, and also why I think it's such an amazing AVC, an amazing platform to be on if you're an entrepreneur and an investor, right?
- ▶ 33:08 Joe Lonsdale and you said people could tell and just to, you know, why is it viable for founders in general to have an engaged AVC partner on build?
Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 4:55 Joe Lonsdale That's what Kimmy told me she said to you, too, my business partner in APC.
How Psychedelic Medicine Could Transform Healthcare | Why Medical School Is Broken · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:00 Joe Lonsdale Sebastian's a new partner at HVC.
The Year That Changed Medicine Forever | Francisco Gimenez Explains the Biotech Revolution. · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 29:37 Joe Lonsdale Maybe it may, maybe it's someone running ABC, I should talk to them about this policy.
Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 2:27 Adrian Fenty And, uh, we've been investing in some great companies, uh, one or two with, uh, with you guys over at ABC, which, which makes us W.
Stephen Harper: Rejecting Wokeness, Addressing China, and Defending Western Values · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 10:08 Joe Lonsdale You know, on my side, you know, we spent over a billion dollars at eight VC building biomanufacturing in the U S in Canada recently, just because, you know, we're worried about where we can get things from.
20VC: Anduril Founder, Palmer Luckey: "I Am Here To Build a $50Bn Company", How Palmer Evaluates His Relationship To Money Pre & Post Oculus' $2.3Bn Exit & Why The US DOD Needs To Be More Like China in It's Approach
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings To date, Palmer's raised over three hundred and eighty five million dollars with Andrill, from the likes of Founders Fund, Andreessen, Elad Gill, Spark, Lux, General Catalyst, and Eight VC, to name a few.
20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings What this individual does with one human hour is just insane when you look at all that he's achieved, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Joe Lonsdale, General Partner at Eight VC. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:58 Harry Stebbings But that's enough from me, so now I'm very, very excited to hand over to Joe Lonsdale, General Partner at Eight VC Three, two, one, zero..
- ▶ 3:29 Harry Stebbings How did you make your way into the world of Venture and come to FoundAVC?
- ▶ 11:33 Harry Stebbings From day one businesses within eight. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:06 Joe Lonsdale It's not good enough for APC.
- ▶ 32:32 Harry Stebbings What's been the biggest challenge in scaling ABC today? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:31 Harry Stebbings I have to say, I absolutely loved having Joe on the show there, and incredible to see all he's built with eight, and if you'd like to see more from us behind the scenes, you can on Instagram at hdebbings, 1996 with two b's, I always love…
Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC (First Meeting, EP.09)
- ▶ 4:11 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Joe Lonsdale, a founding partner at Eight VC, a leading venture capital firm that partners with top founders and entrepreneurs to build lasting technology platforms. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:14 Joe Lonsdale So most of the team came with me and we split off for our third fund, which is now called AVC.
- ▶ 23:41 Ted Seides How much of that scales beyond you individually to ATC as a firm? 3 times in the scene
1214 $3.5m ARR Any.do focused on doing your tasks for you
- ▶ 16:11 Omar Perchik Our biggest investor is HBC.
20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings General Catalyst, CRV, ATVC, Aaron Levy, and more incredible names.
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
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings To date, Darian has raised over a hundred and five million dollars in VC funding with Radius from some of the very best in the business, including our friends at Founders Fund, Eight VC, Salesforce Ventures, and rock stars like Jared Leto…
- ▶ 3:06 Harry Stebbings As I just said, I heard so many great things, both from Matt Garrett at Salesforce, to Drew at Eight, to the team at Founders Fund.
- ▶ 15:22 Darian Shirazi And the investors that we picked, whether it's, you know, Joe and Drew at ABC or whether it's Founders Fund, these are the investors that take risks on these new big markets because they have a vision for where these markets are going to…
- ▶ 16:22 Darian Shirazi And, you know, for example, the ABC team introduced us to Comcast, and that's our largest customer.
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