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SpaceX’s Secret, Nuclear's Rebirth, and the AI Power Crisis · Joe Lonsdale Jun 5, 2026 · 1 mention

From Wall Street King to Federal Prison: Michael Milken's Story · Joe Lonsdale Apr 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:31 Joe Lonsdale I've had friends who had to deal with, uh, this guy named Spitzer who almost destroyed PayPal.

Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale Mar 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:45 Joe Lonsdale Yeah, no, you know, it's interesting when we, before we started Palantir, the, the thing we learned how to do was stop the fraudsters at PayPal, right?
  • ▶ 25:14 Joe Lonsdale So on the, I even remember back from the days of PayPal, you'd find one compromised account and like, what are they working with?

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

AI Expert: Agents Will Take Over Everything · Joe Lonsdale Feb 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:14 Joe Lonsdale At PayPal, when I was there as a kid, it was, I think the Russians were the bigger threat. 2 times in the scene

This Idea is Destroying American Universities · Joe Lonsdale Oct 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:54 Joe Lonsdale I think you should have some theory, but, but I actually learned a hell of a lot more from like working at PayPal and working around other kind of engineers and founders and builders.

Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale Jul 28, 2025 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 2:05 Joe Lonsdale I was a little intern a long time ago at PayPal, but I wasn't senior enough to interact much with you then, but we, we've gotten to know each other in other contexts.
  • ▶ 2:30 Joe Lonsdale I want to get to AI, what's exciting about the future, but before we do that, I want to go back to PayPal a little bit. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:48 Joe Lonsdale So before I jump into that, one more question on PayPal. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:02 Joe Lonsdale And finally, I want to ask, obviously, PayPal was this unprecedented collection of talent, uh, and do you have, do you see any courts of talent emerging like that today? 3 times in the scene

Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale Apr 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:44 Joe Lonsdale Peter, I got to describe you as founder of PayPal and Palantir and Founders Fund.

How AI Might Solve the Alien Mystery: Thought Leader's Paradox · Joe Lonsdale Feb 14, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 36:27 Joe Lonsdale I think one thing that was crazy as an example was that PayPal, they threatened to take away 2500 dollars out of your account if you were caught inciting hatred or misinformation, which they were defining as they wanted. 3 times in the scene

Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale Nov 2, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:27 Elad Gil And that money then went into x.com slash PayPal, and then that money went into rockets and cars and, you know, compounds.

Economist Vs. Billionaire: How The Myth Of Income Inequality Is Dividing America · Joe Lonsdale Oct 25, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:52 Joe Lonsdale You know, we worked with him back at PayPal and other contexts, and when we were building PayPal, I was a kid there, uh, Eliot Spitzer kept trying to destroy the company with regulation, and, and he came very close to doing so, and in… 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 6:43 Joe Lonsdale Peter tells how about they barely got a raise on a PayPal in like early September.

Ep 70: Andrew McAfee on the Science Behind the World's Most Valuable Companies · Joe Lonsdale Nov 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:26 Joe Lonsdale Yeah, no, I mean, I definitely wouldn't have known how to do the things I did if I hadn't gotten to spend some time at PayPal while I was at Stanford, right?

Ep 66: Bob McGrew — the Superstar Palantir Alum Leading OpenAI's Transformative Research Projects · Joe Lonsdale Aug 18, 2023 · 5 mentions

How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale Mar 8, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:23 Joe Lonsdale Uh, so similar to Confinity and X.com, which was Elon Musk and Peter Thiel's company to make PayPal, you guys emerged.

The Greatest Entrepreneur You've Never Heard Of · Joe Lonsdale Jan 18, 2023 · 2 mentions

Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale May 20, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:20 Joe Lonsdale I went to PayPal, which wasn't quite the same, but I also had like a lot of this crazy talent, right?
  • ▶ 2:39 Joe Lonsdale I don't usually like to admit it, but this is a little bit like me and PayPal.
  • ▶ 12:42 Joe Lonsdale When you talk to Peter Thiel about PayPal, he always says they just barely, you're able to raise money, survive, especially really pushing really hard at the right times there.

How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale Feb 23, 2022 · 1 mention

Rep. Ro Khanna & Joe Lonsdale Debate Income Inequality and Regulating Big Tech · Joe Lonsdale Jan 14, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:16 Joe Lonsdale That it has so much power in the economy that it, that it shouldn't be allowed to, because obviously if something's smaller, so like, you know, you probably know the history of PayPal, Elon Musk, you know, had X.com and Peter Thiel had…

Balaji Srinivasan: Bitcoin, China, the "Woke" Mob, and the Future of the Internet · Joe Lonsdale Aug 11, 2021 · 2 mentions

Kimbal Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, The Kitchen, and Launching His First Company with Elon · Joe Lonsdale Jun 29, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:14 Kimbal Musk Well, I invested in PayPal, and you know, I mean, I'm not at all worried about my outcome, but then amazingly, of course, the bubble burst six months later, and it, it was a, just an extraordinary time. 2 times in the scene
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