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America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild Jul 24, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:55 Joe Lonsdale Providing the good guys with the most lethal tools available, and Emil Michael who's working full-time inside the Pentagon as undersecretary, running our research and engineering into the most important technologies to allow us to achieve…
  • ▶ 2:17 Joe Lonsdale The clash between anthropic and the Pentagon over the cutting edge AI is obviously a preview of some of these kind of tough questions. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:27 Joe Lonsdale You have all this stuff going on now with, like, changing how the Pentagon works, right?

Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution Jul 9, 2026 · 1 mention

Trump’s Plan for AI Dominance · Joe Lonsdale May 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:34 Joe Lonsdale I talked about this with Shom earlier on the, how in the Pentagon, it was always the heretics

Palantir CTO: We Need More Heretics · Joe Lonsdale May 8, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:39 Joe Lonsdale The clash between Anthropic and the Pentagon.
  • ▶ 22:30 Joe Lonsdale You wrote that the Pentagon started breaking in 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:38 Shyam Sankar Looking at the amount of bullshit this guy had to deal with, you know, they, his nickname was the Iron Dome of Pentagon bullshit. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:50 Joe Lonsdale If you were in charge of fixing the culture at the Pentagon to protect heretics and to make sure we're scaling all this stuff up, like, what are the number one or two things you'd focus on?
  • ▶ 35:20 Joe Lonsdale The clash between anthropic and the Pentagon over the cutting edge AI is obviously a preview of some of these kind of tough questions.

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

AI Expert: Agents Will Take Over Everything · Joe Lonsdale Feb 4, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:02 Kevin Mandia You know, I got stationed at the Pentagon, and at that time, we called cybersecurity, computer security. 3 times in the scene

Investing in 2026: What You Need to Know (SEC Chairman) · Joe Lonsdale Jan 26, 2026 · 1 mention

Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale Jan 9, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 0:26 Joe Lonsdale Can you bring some of that startup speed to the Pentagon?
  • ▶ 1:10 Joe Lonsdale This means he's in charge of helping the Pentagon and the Department of War work with our top companies and our top researchers and scientists to confront the biggest threats our country is facing. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:42 Joe Lonsdale Excited to be here in the Pentagon today with our friend Emil Michael. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:35 Joe Lonsdale It's probably not possible for the entire Pentagon and three million people to move as fast as you guys did at Uber, but can you, can you bring some of that startup speed to the Pentagon? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:03 Joe Lonsdale You have all this stuff going on now with, like, changing how the Pentagon works, right?

Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale Aug 29, 2025 · 2 mentions

Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale Apr 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:13 Tom Cotton It's gonna double again, our Pentagon estimates, by the end of this decade, and double again by the middle of the next decade.

The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale Dec 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:13 Brendan McCord I remember the very first time I came to the Pentagon was, you know, briefing was happening, and I think Eric Schmidt was learning about Maven for the first time.

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale Nov 22, 2024 · 3 mentions

This AI Sea Drone Could Destroy A Submarine? · Joe Lonsdale Sep 12, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 22:46 Dino Mavrucas If you're not solving urgent and critical problems of the Pentagon, kind of like, oh crap, we're screwed if we don't do this.
  • ▶ 25:33 Joe Lonsdale Uh, you know, we talk a lot about challenges working with the Pentagon. 2 times in the scene

Electronic Warfare and Real-Life Force Fields! Epirus CEO Andy Lowery · Joe Lonsdale Aug 16, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:44 Andy Lowery I mean, they're structured to be, I would say, an offshoot nearly of the DOD, of the Department of Defense, of the Pentagon.
  • ▶ 30:10 Andy Lowery So what I would say is really good about the DOD and the Pentagon is under, uh, Secretary Ash Carter, they implemented what they called an adaptive acquisition framework that has, uh, contract types called OTAs, has, uh, pathways to

Alex Karp On The Future Of AI And Building A Multi Billion-Dollar Company · Joe Lonsdale Jul 14, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:42 Joe Lonsdale And so I think a big problem with a lot of our institutions, for example, around the Pentagon,

Dr. Mark Esper: Lessons from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine · Joe Lonsdale Mar 31, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:49 Joe Lonsdale so what we, what should we be doing to make sure the Pentagon's more open to new, better technologies?
  • ▶ 27:52 Joe Lonsdale And right now, if you go to these top schools, I map this out for my firm, if you see, basically none of the top couple hundred people are looking for jobs in the Pentagon, which, which to me is very scary.

Reviving a Culture of Innovation with Tyler Cowen · Joe Lonsdale Feb 16, 2022 · 1 mention

Kimbal Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, The Kitchen, and Launching His First Company with Elon · Joe Lonsdale Jun 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:38 Kimbal Musk I get my coffee, and as I'm paying the, the, on the radio, they say the Pentagon.
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