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Why AI Creators Keep Panicking (They're Wrong)
- ▶ 6:04 Aaron Levie Meta coming back.
- ▶ 31:16 Aaron Levie So the Googles, the Metas, um, you know, our, our various startups were, were the ones that hired all the engineers.
How to Turn $15K Into $1M in 2026 · Joe Lonsdale
How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 4:44 Joe Lonsdale And he sold scale, obviously, for like, sixteen billion to Facebook or whatever, some funny structure, but he used success.
Jake Paul on Endorsing Trump & the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 17:26 Joe Lonsdale It really is going to be on meta and on X to this.
- ▶ 18:21 Joe Lonsdale I mean, even when Facebook first got going with my friends there, we were trying to think about this and, and, you know, it's an interesting question.
Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:39 unnamed speaker You know, Meta is in the business of content and culture.
Investing in 2026: What You Need to Know (SEC Chairman) · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 31:38 Joe Lonsdale I remember they had to ask Peter Thiel if you, if he could be openly gay for the Facebook board because it was important to count for the number of people.
What Steve Jobs Knew About Innovation That You Don't · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 29:08 Joe Lonsdale We'd still have Facebook and Google and Apple iPhones and everything. 2 times in the scene
This Idea is Destroying American Universities · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 18:06 Carlos Carvalho And had to, had to leave the country because the, the whole idea of combating fake news, for example, got into a, you know, if Biden was bad about trying to go into Twitter and, and, and, and, and Facebook and twist some arms to get people…
The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 4:22 Max Meyer First and foremost, the advertising revenues have just been very bad over the last 20 years since, since, since Google and Meta started taking a bigger share of the ads.
- ▶ 22:12 Max Meyer You have some of these, you know, Facebook boomers who will see these AI videos and just sort of comment, wow, amazing.
Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 7:46 Senator Eric Schmitt You see Jen Psaki at the podium saying we're flagging this for Facebook and Joe Biden saying that these tech companies are killing people.
From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 3:31 Joe Lonsdale He was building a lot on Facebook early on. 2 times in the scene
How AI is Fixing America’s Most Boring Industry · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 16:48 unnamed speaker Um, but it's, you know, Facebook groups.
Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 16:36 Joe Lonsdale Which is the meta and Google and access at Anthropoc.
Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:12 Dave Rubin Where are the Facebook files?
- ▶ 20:59 Dave Rubin Where are the Facebook files? 3 times in the scene
Why California is Collapsing From Within · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 15:39 Joe Lonsdale I got my Facebook account throttled at the time for sharing similar suspicions.
The Truth About AI: Sam Lessin’s Contrarian Take · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:14 Sam Lessin I built the original Facebook identity team.
- ▶ 1:01 Joe Lonsdale He was early at Facebook as a key leader during the hyper growth years after being at Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg and others.
- ▶ 2:43 Sam Lessin Um, and kind of, we built that up, ended up selling it to Facebook, uh, where I was an exec for a bunch of years reporting to Mark, running a bunch of the product teams. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:51 Joe Lonsdale You're VP of product early at Facebook. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 Joe Lonsdale Tell us about your key lessons learned at Facebook. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 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… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:16 Sam Lessin When I left Facebook, Kevin Collar and I, along with Dave Moore, and he's a good friend to do a podcast with him.
- ▶ 20:08 Sam Lessin Because what happened was in the public markets, everyone came to realize that you'd rather just put more money into meta than back the five billion dollar baby
- ▶ 34:57 Sam Lessin Cause you know, these experiences compound is, you know, for years I was kind of running a lot of PM recruiting at Facebook and all the PM onboarding.
Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 7:24 Peter Thiel At a place like Harvard, my, my impression is they don't even know that Zuckerberg created meta Facebook at Harvard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:39 Joe Lonsdale So the time I was, we were working to get, I was working for you, working on the hedge fund, you were invested in Facebook, you're doing other investing, and we decided to really go all in and spend a lot of time on Palantir.
- ▶ 41:00 Peter Thiel And, um, and you can, you can analyze it on the level, you know, I was, I was on the, um, I was on, um, you know, I was on the meta board for 17 years from 2005 to 2022.
Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 8:46 Joe Lonsdale I actually posted about it myself right when it happened, and my Facebook account at the time, I don't have one anymore, but my Facebook account got throttled for talking about the lab leak because I thought it was the obvious thing, and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:57 Joe Lonsdale And I just, I disagree with him on that, even though a huge fan of his, like, I feel like there's a law and the CCP is the bigger threat here is, is like, like, like, is this, cause it's going to be handled correctly or what's, what's…
How AI Might Solve the Alien Mystery: Thought Leader's Paradox · Joe Lonsdale
$2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 21:06 Zach Bookman This is going to be the Facebook of governments or what have you.
The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 34:35 Joe Lonsdale This is like the NGOs with Facebook and the government, Biden administration, like trying to just create lots of rules for society.
Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 31:57 Joe Lonsdale Moscow is one of the Facebook co-founders too.
Jonathan Greenblatt on Ta-Nehisi Coates, CRT, and woke politics · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 20:44 Joe Lonsdale You went on Al Sharpton's show and called for a corporate boycott of Facebook for not censoring pro-Trump ads, and then briefly tried to pause advertising on Twitter a couple years later as well. 5 times in the scene
Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:02 Sri Ganesan The Facebook of India is Facebook, etc.
- ▶ 25:13 Sri Ganesan The Facebook of India is Facebook, etc.
Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 27:41 Joe Lonsdale I'm like, I know they were working 90 hours on Facebook for the first several years.
Ep 77: Mike Solana on Exposing Corruption, Saving San Francisco, and Building a New Media Empire · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 13:15 Mike Solana It was in a Facebook message. 2 times in the scene
Ep 72: Illegal Chinese Bio Labs & Secret Police Inside America! Congressman Mike Gallagher · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 24:34 Joe Lonsdale You know, Facebook, for example, they were trying to get into China for a while and they could have gotten to China if they totally kowtowed to them and gave them huge control over the company and kind of
Ep 67: Brad Gerstner on the AI Supercycle & Restoring Faith in Capitalism · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 9:14 Brad Gerstner So companies like Uber and Airbnb, companies that were taking advantage of the social graph like Facebook,
- ▶ 16:42 Brad Gerstner You look at companies like Meta that have compounded engineering headcount at well over 20% a year for the trailing five years, now saying we can hold engineering headcount flat to one to two percent as we look forward over the next few…
- ▶ 38:11 Brad Gerstner Facebook's the case study, and, you know, competitors would be well served to follow.
Ep 61: High School Dropout to Billion-Dollar Startup; the Story of Guillermo Rauch & Vercel · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 17:20 Guillermo Rauch So at the time, uh, Meta or Facebook had open sourced their, their technology for creating UI at scale. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:58 Guillermo Rauch And this goes back to why we take so much pride in democratizing access to technologies that Meta or Google have invented.
- ▶ 45:43 Guillermo Rauch Like I, I take the side of Meta on if we are not able to connect small businesses through advertising to the people that are interested in their products, we have a worse world.
Ep 50: Troy Carter on Discovering Lady Gaga, Future of Music, and Speaking Out on School Choice · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 20:08 Troy Carter He took me to Facebook's office.
Joe Lonsdale and Chris Sprowls: How to Defeat Special Interests & Cronyism · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 30:09 Chris Sprowls That there is going to be a backlash from this world that we were living in now where we're on Facebook and Twitter and not talking to each other anymore.
Rep. Ro Khanna & Joe Lonsdale Debate Income Inequality and Regulating Big Tech · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:15 Rep. Ro Khanna In fact, you know, in the book I write about, uh, how, uh, I, I thought it was a mistake for Twitter to take down some of this stuff about Hunter Biden or, or, uh, or Facebook to do that.
- ▶ 7:46 Rep. Ro Khanna Think that Facebook should have been allowed to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:22 Rep. Ro Khanna Here, but you know, Facebook has information that Instagram is causing depression and anxiety about teenagers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:56 Rep. Ro Khanna I mean, I looked the top nine out of the top 10 sites on Facebook are conservative sites with, uh, Donald Trump and Hannity and Ben Shapiro and others. 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: Bitcoin, China, the "Woke" Mob, and the Future of the Internet · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 7:25 Balaji Sr i n i v a s a n That was Facebook, that was, you know, uh, like YouTube. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:56 Balaji Sr i n i v a s a n We had to have it a central hub like a Facebook or a Twitter or a PayPal, um, which are great companies.
- ▶ 15:20 Joe Lonsdale The Facebook and, uh, and the LinkedIn and the Twitter and these other areas, uh, to, to this decentralized world.
- ▶ 16:07 Joe Lonsdale Like why isn't there a good competitor that more people are using to Facebook or Twitter or Tik Tok or, you know, it's funny. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:14 Balaji Sr i n i v a s a n It, the implementation is different, but it, there's, there's like a pressure for conversion evolution here because only those ideologies, if you think about it from a very macro perspective, you know, with Facebook connecting world,…
- ▶ 39:35 Balaji Sr i n i v a s a n Like, let's say you take a school, when Facebook got schools online, and those people all pretty much knew each other.
Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:14 Joe Lonsdale Palmer was the founder of Oculus Rift, which created modern virtual reality and was sold to Facebook.
- ▶ 6:14 Palmer Luckey This was actually what I was working on when I, when I was at Facebook, I had a side project.
- ▶ 7:49 Palmer Luckey We were like 45 people when the Facebook acquisition was announced. 3 times in the scene
Ashton Kutcher Warns China Could Use TikTok Against the U.S. · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 20:51 Joe Lonsdale And there's not only online predators, there's only adult content, but there's a super addictive things with Twitter and Facebook and tick tock.