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SpaceX’s Secret, Nuclear's Rebirth, and the AI Power Crisis · Joe Lonsdale Jun 5, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 6:47 Joe Lonsdale I remember one of the famous Elon quotes I've heard more recently is the cost of time is greater than the cost of costs, which
  • ▶ 20:04 Joe Lonsdale We actually, I was with Elon recently.
  • ▶ 31:19 Joe Lonsdale Our friend Omid, right, did that fast with Elon the plane. 2 times in the scene

From Wall Street King to Federal Prison: Michael Milken's Story · Joe Lonsdale Apr 24, 2026 · 2 mentions

How 200mph Flying Taxis Will End Traffic Jams Apr 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:28 Joe Lonsdale In, uh, in Austin, we have all these places like east towards Bastrop, where Elon's built all this stuff.

How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale Mar 27, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:22 Russell Kaplan Elon had this phrase that he really drilled into us, which is, everyone is chief engineer.
  • ▶ 6:55 Russell Kaplan You know, when I was at, uh, autopilot, uh, I was a machine learning scientist working on the sort of the vision neural network, and Elon had this phrase that he really drilled into us, which is, you know, everyone is chief engineer. 2 times in the scene

Jake Paul on Endorsing Trump & the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale Mar 19, 2026 · 1 mention

Why this Billionaire Just Took Over NASA · Joe Lonsdale Mar 3, 2026 · 6 mentions

Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale Feb 17, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:13 Joe Lonsdale And so it's like, not only is Elon building these giant things faster than everyone, 3 times in the scene

Investing in 2026: What You Need to Know (SEC Chairman) · Joe Lonsdale Jan 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:38 Joe Lonsdale So we're sending this clip to Governor Abbott and to Elon, and we're going to fix it for everyone.
  • ▶ 19:33 Joe Lonsdale Okay guys, so we're sending this clip to Governor Abbott and to Elon, and we're going to fix it for everyone.

The Secret Team Fixing America's Broken Systems · Joe Lonsdale Jan 20, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:07 Joe Lonsdale He's friends with Elon Musk and others, and he decided to back President Trump and fight for his values.
  • ▶ 2:48 Joe Lonsdale Viewpoints, and you've always been, like, reasonable, moderate, and you ended up, um, along with your friend Elon and other friends, uh, supporting Trump and changing your mind.
  • ▶ 9:59 Joe Gebbia And, uh, I got a text from Elon around that time, uh, around that time of the day.
  • ▶ 22:00 Joe Lonsdale Obviously, uh, Elon and the, and the president had a, a bit of a spat. 3 times in the scene

These Jobs Will Skyrocket in the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale Dec 30, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:18 Chris Sununu Elon was so right in what he was doing, but they should have surrounded him with better methods and messaging.
  • ▶ 14:58 Joe Lonsdale They're not all Elon Musk running a company who would just boldly say, no, like that's not who they are. 2 times in the scene

America’s New AI Strategy: "We're Building a Tech Force" · Joe Lonsdale Dec 18, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 11:44 Joe Lonsdale I remember when Latin was running the transition with Elon and Vivek in the room, I was in the room a little bit and it was just really exciting.
  • ▶ 23:34 Joe Lonsdale Doge is an example of a department which is able to attract a lot of top engineering talent from Silicon Valley, large part due to Elon Musk, of course. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:55 Scott Kupor We're not going to, you know, we can't, and Elon, you know,

Why It's Legally Impossible To Build In America · Joe Lonsdale Dec 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:29 Joe Lonsdale So for example, Elon Musk's Boring Company, I'm obsessed with this because infrastructure is so hard to do, and he's made these tunnels so cheap that it's just, it becomes this, like, hundred to one return for society if you can get rid of…

What Steve Jobs Knew About Innovation That You Don't · Joe Lonsdale Nov 21, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:40 Matt Ridley Meanwhile, in America, Elon Musk is landing rockets on gantries.
  • ▶ 8:46 Matt Ridley But meanwhile, in America, Elon Musk is landing rockets on gantries.
  • ▶ 24:16 Joe Lonsdale So by the way, a lot of us here, I've built multiple big companies, Elon, hundreds of us have built multiple big companies.
  • ▶ 42:02 Joe Lonsdale Elon Musk has done a great job speaking out on this as well, and it's something that I, something that I've, I've gotten some people annoyed at me for doing too, so I'm gonna keep doing it then.

This Idea is Destroying American Universities · Joe Lonsdale Oct 9, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:27 Joe Lonsdale He said the, and a lot of, you know, I wrote in the Wall Street Journal early last year, I actually got Jeb Bush to step up and say what they were doing to Elon, what they were doing to Trump in the courts was clearly abusing the courts.
  • ▶ 43:46 Joe Lonsdale I think people like Neil Ferguson and Barry Weiss and hopefully friends like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, I hope to be part of that as well.

What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale Sep 25, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 40:37 Zachary Levi It's like, look, Elon, very polarizing person. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:06 Zachary Levi I have not met one single person that works at any of his businesses that's like, that guy, he doesn't treat anybody, in fact, quite the opposite. 8 times in the scene

The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale Sep 15, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:25 Max Meyer It's not just Elon.
  • ▶ 8:43 Max Meyer I think that this explains why a lot of left-wing journalists, when, when Elon Musk took over Twitter and started, you know, you know, cleaning up shop, they were under the impression that that was, like, explicitly tipping the scales in…
  • ▶ 10:23 Max Meyer And all of the headlines that day, you know, Elon Musk's very bad day, Elon Musk fails with rocket, rocket explodes. 4 times in the scene

Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale Aug 29, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 12:27 Senator Eric Schmitt But when we got that, when we got those documents, when we started taking those depositions, Joe, you got to remember, you go back in time, this was before Elon Musk had bought Twitter. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:06 Joe Lonsdale And we learning from some of what Elon showed us all learning from all this new AI, you know, on the top of the technology, there's a big debate over AI manufacturing, also immigration, the future of the American heartland.
  • ▶ 34:18 Joe Lonsdale We have Elon competing.

From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale Aug 13, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 16:28 Joe Lonsdale The way Elon describes it, you're not like blowing up the plane every time you use it. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:43 Joe Lonsdale Maybe Elon lowers the price a little bit with that or something to, to create more volume.
  • ▶ 28:49 Joe Lonsdale Elon has how many up there for Starlink, do we think? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:52 Ian Cinnamon Elon has to go through this to launch, uh, Starship still, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:33 Ian Cinnamon And I think there's some elements where we move humankind beyond earth, like to Mars, like Elon wants or somewhere, somewhere else.

Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale Jul 28, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:34 Joe Lonsdale It's interesting, all these characters are bigger characters these days than they used to be, whether it's, uh, Elon or Peter or David Sachs. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:09 Joe Lonsdale I guess, I guess Elon did it right, but he had to raise a lot of money to do it.

New Face of DOGE Agenda Explains the Big Beautiful Bill · Joe Lonsdale Jul 22, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 Joe Lonsdale Some of my friends on the right, people like Elon Musk, were upset they didn't think it cut enough.
  • ▶ 12:19 Joe Lonsdale Some of my friends on the right, people like Elon Musk were upset.

How AI Robots Are Taking Over Construction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 16, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:18 Boris Sofman Like you could kill somebody and, uh, Elon maybe iterates fast and public with XAI. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:42 Joe Lonsdale I remember I was talking to Elon about this, it was maybe late last year,

From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 3, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 20:22 Marc Andreessen And then what's gonna happen, you, you've all probably seen, you know, Elon has this Optimus robot that he's building, um, 3 times in the scene

Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale Jun 26, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:07 Dave Rubin We get the Twitter files and I sat with Elon.
  • ▶ 20:24 Dave Rubin and I sat with Elon and they showed me like all of the ways they were shadow banning it. 2 times in the scene

Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale Apr 17, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 13:56 Peter Thiel But I think there was an Elon metaphor he told me once, and this is like, I, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:09 Joe Lonsdale I know it's random, but on Elon's boring company, I'm excited. 2 times in the scene

Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale Apr 3, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:32 Joe Lonsdale I'm a huge fan of what Elon and Doge are doing to uncover waste and fraud. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:12 Joe Lonsdale I'm a huge fan of what Elon and Doge are doing to uncover waste and fraud. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:49 Tom Cotton Something that Elon Musk and his teams are working on that I think hasn't gotten as much attention, but it should. 2 times in the scene

Exercise Scientist: How AI & “Miracle Drugs” Can Make You Superhuman · Joe Lonsdale Mar 14, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:40 Dr. Mike Israetel So if you have a situation, I think it's going to start with amputees and some of the stuff like Elon and his teams are doing with like brain machine interface. 2 times in the scene

Ex-Bud Light President: The Truth Behind the Brand’s Collapse · Joe Lonsdale Feb 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:02 Anson Frerichs Cause I was in the beverage world, uh, before Elon bought Twitter, we thought about creating a Twitter that was free speech, but ended up creating strive, uh, because we thought that we could change culture across corporate America.

How AI Might Solve the Alien Mystery: Thought Leader's Paradox · Joe Lonsdale Feb 14, 2025 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 1:04 Joe Lonsdale He's someone who's followed closely by Elon Musk, by a lot of my smartest friends.
  • ▶ 1:51 Joe Lonsdale I'm sad because Elon's not here anymore as much. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:53 Joe Lonsdale So I'm a huge fan of what Elon's doing just for that sake and what it does to us. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:41 Joe Lonsdale Uh, I guess it makes you more biased towards Elon's like, let's have the backup planet. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 51:33 Tim Urban I shouldn't, I, I, I made the, I made the age old mistake, which is I listened to Elon timelines, um, too much. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:29 Joe Lonsdale The only thing that will beat that is Elon's rockets if we fly on this.

The Man Behind the Military's Smartest Self-Driving Vehicles · Joe Lonsdale Jan 30, 2025 · 1 mention

$2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale Jan 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale Dec 13, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:26 Joe Lonsdale Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Charles Koch, they're, they're deeply invested in philosophy.
  • ▶ 21:58 Joe Lonsdale I feel like this is Elon's, Elon's comment on it as well. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:33 Joe Lonsdale Well, that's, I think this is what Elon and Vivek want with these areas.
  • ▶ 49:13 Joe Lonsdale Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Charles Koch, they're, they're deeply enmeshed in philosophy.

Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale Nov 29, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:13 Joe Lonsdale Brownsville, you know, we call us, we call us Starbase around here now because of Elon, that's funny, you did, you did it there.

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale Nov 22, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 20:33 Steve Blank It's not that Elon didn't get any money, but no, I mean, that's the, that's the paperwork budget that Northrop Grumman, or that's their lobbying budget that he got. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:34 Steve Blank Maybe we'll hit Elon's a 144, but, but in any case, they don't screw around. 2 times in the scene

Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale Nov 2, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 8:37 Elad Gil What it was doing is very unique and defensible, and honestly, I mean, it survived to this day as now X under Musk, but, you know, it survived for 20 years is something that wasn't very well run for much of that history. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:34 Joe Lonsdale I feel like Elon used to be more that way, because he really would say no to everything.
  • ▶ 29:22 Elad Gil Like, look at what Musk has done, but his first success was zip two in the nineties. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:23 Joe Lonsdale No, I mean, Elon said he got rid of all the lines of AI just by using, by using AI, he got rid of 300,000 lines of juristics, basically, in Tesla's AI for driving, which is insane.
  • ▶ 39:59 Joe Lonsdale And then it's like the models, whether it's Elon's X or an Anthropoc.

Economist Vs. Billionaire: How The Myth Of Income Inequality Is Dividing America · Joe Lonsdale Oct 25, 2024 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 0:03 Phil Gramm Elon Musk, I'm no poorer because he's richer.
  • ▶ 11:17 Phil Gramm Uh, how, Elon Musk, I don't know if he's still the richest man in the world, but I'm no poorer because he's richer. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:50 Joe Lonsdale I've also, not as big as Elon, but I've started a bunch of companies as well, and it's funny, I tell my friends, if I were to start another company, that would make inequality go up, but if I were to spend all the money on the beach and go…
  • ▶ 28:47 Joe Lonsdale The other thing I'll give you on that, which is interesting, Elon Musk, of course, has become very famous now. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:17 Phil Gramm Uh, I'm poor because government's richer, but I'm not poor because Elon Musk is richer.

Turning $25K Into $3 Billion: The Hard Truths Of Jimmy John's Success · Joe Lonsdale Oct 3, 2024 · 3 mentions

Harvard Economist: The Truth About Police Brutality · Joe Lonsdale Sep 20, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:10 Joe Lonsdale You know, my friend Elon has gotten really passionate about making government, you know, less, less broken and wasteful amongst others.
  • ▶ 37:02 Roland Fryer I know for some people that's like, you know, they'd rather go with Elon Musk to the moon, but, but trust me, uh, this is both harder and more satisfying. 2 times in the scene

This AI Sea Drone Could Destroy A Submarine? · Joe Lonsdale Sep 12, 2024 · 1 mention

He Predicted Putin's Invasion. Now He Predicts When China Will Invade Taiwan. · Joe Lonsdale Aug 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:38 Joe Lonsdale You probably saw resilience bio, the biggest new advanced bio manufacturer pushing here, places in the U S and allies, obviously Elon, thanks to him, we're in space.

How Founder Ken Langone Turned Home Depot Into A $400 Billion Empire · Joe Lonsdale Jul 3, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:11 Joe Lonsdale It reminds me today of how they came after Elon Musk for getting paid too much. 2 times in the scene

Ep 90: A Conversation with Wall Street Pioneer Ethan Penner · Joe Lonsdale May 23, 2024 · 1 mention

Ep 85: The Path to Regime Change in Iran with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi · Joe Lonsdale Apr 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:05 Joe Lonsdale Some of my good friends who, you know, one of the people who runs things with Elon Musk is, is, is Persian, and he's a huge fan of yours.

Ep 82: Rising Inflation? Looming Recession? The State of the Economy with Whitney Baker · Joe Lonsdale Mar 21, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:13 Joe Lonsdale From a macro and geopolitical perspective, we're in a huge amount of trouble if you just read the macro, and there's going to be a really tough 10 or 15 years ahead, but hopefully our friends in the technology world can save the day and…

Ep 80: Leonard Leo Knows How to Win and How to Save Our Country · Joe Lonsdale Mar 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:23 Joe Lonsdale And we talked about the use of the state's judicial systems to persecute political enemies, uh, both of course with, uh, Donald Trump and Elon Musk recently with rulings that, you know, even though I looked into them in a lot of detail,…

Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale Feb 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:57 Joe Lonsdale that, but that is like the mindset in the valley amongst, I mean, obviously we're spending time with Peter and Elon and all these guys.

Ep 77: Mike Solana on Exposing Corruption, Saving San Francisco, and Building a New Media Empire · Joe Lonsdale Feb 8, 2024 · 1 mention

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