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Why this Billionaire Just Took Over NASA · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 5:29 Jared Isaacman So we would drop live ordinance for them in training ranges to get the currency before they would deploy, uh, you know, Iraq, Afghanistan, where they would have to call in airstrikes for real.
Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 2:25 Emil Michael Uh, you know, Joe, I did, I was a White House fellow in 2009, almost 15, over 15 years ago, and I got to work with the Secretary of Defense at the time, Robert Gates, and I traveled with him to Afghanistan, Iraq, I saw sort of the inside,…
- ▶ 5:36 Emil Michael I would say that during the global war on terror, right, the Afghanistan war and the second Iraq war, we were building our military to fight an irregular army, kind of ragtag, improvised explosive devices, so we were thinking about how we…
- ▶ 28:10 Emil Michael It didn't work in Afghanistan. 2 times in the scene
The Truth About AI: Sam Lessin’s Contrarian Take · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 10:15 Joe Lonsdale I, I want to ask you one other Facebook question, because you mentioned it, and I think it's tied to some of your more recent work as well, is you said you worked on identity at Facebook, and this is like, kind of like my friend who worked…
$2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 2:51 Zach Bookman And I went up, practiced two years of law in San Francisco, and then I went overseas to Afghanistan and served as an advisor to General McMaster on the anti-corruption task force, and that was a kind of surreal year, and as you may… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:33 Joe Lonsdale What did you solve in Afghanistan? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:30 Joe Lonsdale It was, it was clear there was just, like, insane amounts of money being wasted in Afghanistan on stuff that maybe was good intentions, but it was like, come on.
- ▶ 9:51 Zach Bookman Um, the culture, the Afghan culture is kind of amazing. 4 times in the scene
The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 4:28 Brendan McCord Almost like I was a Googler, but I was working for the government, I was an HQE, and, um, I worked with their AI team, and we were working on counter ISIS stuff, and, um, after I left, after I rolled off the project, we had deployed it in…
This AI Sea Drone Could Destroy A Submarine? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 5:56 Dino Mavrucas So combat tours going to, I spent most of my time in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a typical SEAL deployment cycle is nine months of training and then four months of deployment. 3 times in the scene
Ep 85: The Path to Regime Change in Iran with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 23:36 Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi In a way, what happened in nine 11 propelled a campaign of getting engaged in Afghanistan and later on Iraq.
Ep 81: How Palantir Star Tyler Scriven Is Helping Small Business Compete With Amazon · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 16:13 Tyler Scriven You know, you and I both have friends who, you know, were, uh, you know, in Afghanistan and Iraq and, you know, and, and, and, and, and difficult parts of difficult cities all over the country and doing all sorts of things, um, you know,…
Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:10 Joe Lonsdale He was involved in the defense world in Afghanistan.
- ▶ 11:50 Emil Michael So I got to sit with him as a special assistant, and he was charged with winding down the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:17 Joe Lonsdale Interesting mess in Afghanistan.
Ep 58: Private Markets Outperform Public But They're a Mess! Eliot Hodges Is Fixing That. · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:21 Joe Lonsdale In your past, you were at Blend, you were at Palantir, you were in Afghanistan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:35 Joe Lonsdale You've obviously lived through some pretty cynical things will happen in Afghanistan after your work there.
Ep 51: Adm. Bill McRaven on Leadership, Modernizing the Dept of Defense & Dealing with China · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 5:38 Adm. Bill McRaven Yeah, you know, I think, uh, when you look at a, uh, a kinetic problem, let's say, so a, a raid, a, a mission like we would have conducted in Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere else around the world, uh, you know, it, it is really about the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:30 Adm. Bill McRaven We had found in Iraq and Afghanistan, a lot of times when we went in to hit targets, the targets were rigged. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:50 Joe Lonsdale Cause it feels like it happened a little bit again in Afghanistan. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:46 Adm. Bill McRaven And of course, my first story is about Lieutenant Ashley White, who was part of the cultural support team in Afghanistan.
- ▶ 35:04 Adm. Bill McRaven Well, I'm quick to point out you've never seen them in a firefight in Afghanistan or going to the University of Texas to make a better life for themselves.
Mike Pompeo: Negotiating with Tyrants, Spy Balloons (or UFOs?) & Why Trump Didn't Ban TikTok · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 8:30 Mike Pompeo In Afghanistan, we wanted to get out.
- ▶ 19:54 Mike Pompeo When that error is to form, when, when you've, you know, abandoned Afghanistan and had 13 Americans killed, when you talked about
Dr. Mark Esper: Lessons from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 10:59 Joe Lonsdale In Afghanistan, I have a lot of friends who were involved in capturing a lot of the bad guys in the region, and I think a lot of them were put in this prison in Bagram, and, and then we left, and everything fell, and I understand a lot of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:47 Dr. Mark Esper We're still dealing with, uh, Afghanistan.
- ▶ 31:58 Joe Lonsdale We've bungled Afghanistan, and, and there, and there, and there's issues.
How to Fix Homelessness, Expand Telehealth, and Defeat Special Interests with Jared Meyer · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 20:56 Jared Meyer That death rate is higher than the death rate in Iraq and Afghanistan for soldiers.
Don't Ban CRT; Win With Better Ideas. Thomas Chatterton Williams Talks Race & Liberalism · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 32:52 Thomas Chatterton Williams Um, reliable partner, and, and the world seems dangerous, and there might be a war, um, very close to a lot of our, um, Western European neighbors, and they don't know, if you look what happened in Afghanistan this summer, they don't…
Peng Shuai, Beijing Olympics & Holding China Accountable with Former UN Ambassador Kelly Craft · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:47 Ambassador Kelly Craft And just like in Afghanistan, now we have Iran watching, you know, we have all the Middle East. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:00 Ambassador Kelly Craft We have had Afghanistan.
How to Fix Dysfunctional Government with Esper CEO Maleka Momand · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:50 Joe Lonsdale And your parents came to Arkansas from Afghanistan?
- ▶ 2:43 Maleka Momand My parents are like, you know, they, they escaped like, ah, the, the Soviet regime in Afghanistan and, ah, are always really skeptical of authority.