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How AI Agents Are Transforming This $140 Billion Industry · Joe Lonsdale Jul 2, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:28 Joe Lonsdale It's just like, I guess that's normal in, in San Francisco in twenty-twenty-five, but it's very impressive.

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

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

  • ▶ 2:52 JoeBen Bevirt The nation's 250th anniversary and to be doing an electric skies tour where we extend what we did here in San Francisco to communities across the country.

How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale Mar 27, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:45 Joe Lonsdale There's all these memes in San Francisco where, like, nerdy guys are on dates, but they're too distracted watching their fleet of agents to talk to the girl.

Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale Feb 17, 2026 · 2 mentions

The Secret Team Fixing America's Broken Systems · Joe Lonsdale Jan 20, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 5:20 Joe Gebbia But other things too, like, you know, living in San Francisco and going through a whole DA situation there where they just didn't prosecute criminals. 3 times in the scene

What Steve Jobs Knew About Innovation That You Don't · Joe Lonsdale Nov 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:22 Matt Ridley San Francisco, New York, Washington.
  • ▶ 39:58 Matt Ridley Now, it's really important that America continues to do that because, as I say, the fragmented nature of different states with different competition, people moving from San Francisco to Austin to find a more congenial, um, environment,…

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

  • ▶ 38:14 Joe Lonsdale I think, I think Schellenberger is a great example, because he started off actually, incidentally, on the Soros side, and working with them, and very much one view of the world, and, and he's such an independent thinker that he came all…

The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale Sep 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:06 Max Meyer I was one of the first people in America to write a big article about Chesa Boudin, who was the DA in San Francisco right after he'd been elected.
  • ▶ 30:07 Max Meyer Um, you know, we're in San Francisco.

How AI Agents Are Transforming Logistics · Joe Lonsdale Sep 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:25 Harish Abbott You know, as you can tell, I think there's like 1500 startups in San Francisco alone, right?

From Prosperity to Ruins: Venezuela’s Fight for Freedom · Joe Lonsdale Aug 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:44 Joe Lonsdale Our, our recent DA in San Francisco, who we threw out of power chase a boot, and I guess worked with Chavez as did many other of the far left in the U S.

From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale Aug 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:10 Ian Cinnamon Driving between, I don't know, let's say, like, uh, uh, Palo Alto and San Francisco.

How AI Robots Are Taking Over Construction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 16, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 7:35 Boris Sofman Um, where we helped launch the Jaguars into San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:23 Boris Sofman ML is the inverse, where the further you go, the better competency you've gathered, uh, and you end up, uh, um, using data to explain whatever gaps you have, and those gaps are less and less the further you go, and so the system from San… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:52 Boris Sofman Yeah, so we, so part of it was really, um, appreciating how incredible those scalability capabilities we just talked about were, um, where you start with a beachhead, in Waymo's case was San Francisco, and now you have this fly where… 2 times in the scene

From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale Jul 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:58 Marc Andreessen And if you, if you haven't tried this yet, if go to, go to, if you ever have the misfortune of finding yourself in San Francisco, uh, take a Waymo.
  • ▶ 22:45 Marc Andreessen It's gonna, it's gonna make San Francisco and LA and New York much better off and Austin much better off, but it's still not gonna answer this question of what happens in the countryside.

Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale Jun 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:41 Dave Rubin The more that the economy is chugging along, the more that the border is safe, the more that you could go into the city with your family and not feel like you're going to get mugged because you're going to a show in Times Square or…

Why California is Collapsing From Within · Joe Lonsdale Jun 19, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:18 Steve Hilton We're now in the 23rd year of Gavin Newsom's ten-year plan to end homelessness in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:04 Joe Lonsdale And meanwhile, they're getting rid of in San Francisco and Palo Alto, all the honors classes, even now. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:38 Steve Hilton I mean, as I like to point out, we're now in the 23rd year of Gavin Newsom's 10 year plan to end homelessness in San Francisco, which has just got worse. 2 times in the scene

The Truth About AI: Sam Lessin’s Contrarian Take · Joe Lonsdale May 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:54 Joe Lonsdale So you put a billboard up on the one-on-one recently outside of San Francisco that says AI is not your moat.

Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale Apr 17, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 40:08 Joe Lonsdale So I think studying SF and studying Austin,
  • ▶ 45:20 Peter Thiel And so it was just, they were going to move a certain percentage of their people out of San Francisco every year. 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 7:09 Joe Lonsdale And I guess, I guess just New York and San Francisco in general were so immersed and so steeped in these broken cultures that once you're there, they kind of took over the whole culture.

$2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale Jan 23, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 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…
  • ▶ 5:57 Zach Bookman Funny story there, I was on the eve of, I quit my job, I sold my car, and rented out my apartment in San Francisco, and I remember playing golf with you right beforehand, I said, hey, this is what's going on, and you were like, what are…
  • ▶ 34:03 Zach Bookman This is Lombard Street in downtown San Francisco, and one individual gets to ruin

AI Vs Engineers: Will They Be Replaced? · Joe Lonsdale Dec 6, 2024 · 1 mention

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

  • ▶ 9:19 Raj Bhakta And the vehicle was that rye whiskey was just getting hot in the cocktail bars in San Francisco and New York and Chicago.

Why Reparations Won't Work & Why Standardized Tests Help Minorities -- Coleman Hughes · Joe Lonsdale May 16, 2024 · 1 mention

Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale Feb 14, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:43 Emil Michael They're, the intensity when you walk in the office, and you're this San Francisco at a Friday at five, and then everyone's there.
  • ▶ 29:56 Emil Michael And do you remember trying to get a taxi in San Francisco, Joe, when we lived there?

Ep 77: Mike Solana on Exposing Corruption, Saving San Francisco, and Building a New Media Empire · Joe Lonsdale Feb 8, 2024 · 15 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Mike Solana Taxpayers in San Francisco are being forced to fund organizations that, for example, are shutting down the Bay Bridge. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:14 Mike Solana I think I always, I criticize the media the same way I criticize San Francisco, and people often get it twisted. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:29 Mike Solana Like, we just need huge posters, artwork all throughout the city.
  • ▶ 15:08 Joe Lonsdale And you're in Miami, but you might, but you love San Francisco too.
  • ▶ 28:33 Mike Solana Making it impossible for them to spend money on things that are not, so in the case of San Francisco, it's a really good example, uh, homelessness in San Francisco. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:34 Mike Solana In San Francisco, I see all these young guys who are moving in and working and excited, and I see these people in, like, Southern California and, like, Gundo, like, all that, like, hardware tech scene and everything that happened with…

Ep 74: Niall Ferguson & Pano Kanelos on Building the University of Austin · Joe Lonsdale Dec 13, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep 72: Illegal Chinese Bio Labs & Secret Police Inside America! Congressman Mike Gallagher · Joe Lonsdale Nov 30, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:00 Joe Lonsdale You know, before we jump into your committee's work more, I want to ask, what do you make of President Xi's visit to San Francisco last week?
  • ▶ 34:23 Congressman Mike Gallagher And I think it's dangerous, therefore, for president Biden to suggest as he did in Vietnam and as he just did in San Francisco, that because China has economic problems, she is less likely to invade Taiwan.

Ep 69: How a Teenager Set Out to Rid the Ocean of Plastic; Boyan Slat & the Ocean Cleanup · Joe Lonsdale Nov 8, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep 68: Are High Interest Rates & Inflation Here to Stay? How to Generate Alpha with Jacob Miller · Joe Lonsdale Nov 2, 2023 · 1 mention

Ep 63: Eddie Margain on Fleeing Mexico and Building Austin FC · Joe Lonsdale Jun 22, 2023 · 2 mentions

Ep 61: High School Dropout to Billion-Dollar Startup; the Story of Guillermo Rauch & Vercel · Joe Lonsdale Jun 11, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 33:45 Guillermo Rauch So my new take is leadership in executive positions are in San Francisco, uh, but not, not going to come into the office every single day, because I think that can diverge into loss of productivity. 2 times in the scene

Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale May 11, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:34 Joe Lonsdale Like, this is literally how they talk now in a lot of these places, and the other side seems to be doing it, too, in San Francisco.

Ep 56: A Philosopher Reinventing Construction? Maria Davidson & the Story of Kojo · Joe Lonsdale May 4, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:56 Maria Davidson You know, I moved from London to San Francisco, and San Francisco was full of really brilliant people working on problems in the digital space, and I was shocked at how slow and expensive and difficult it was to build the built environment. 3 times in the scene

Ep 53: Joe Gebbia Changed the World with Airbnb. Here's What He's Building Next. · Joe Lonsdale Apr 12, 2023 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 15:23 Joe Gebbia I moved to San Francisco. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:00 Joe Gebbia Well, so, I, I've been experiencing this firsthand, and I call Brian in LA, I'm like, Brian, you gotta come up to San Francisco, like, the action is, is up here. 3 times in the scene

How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale Mar 8, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:22 Joe Lonsdale Well, it was great because I think the guy who sold it to AOL built the battery in SF, which was a nice glove for a few years we all got to use, so.
  • ▶ 20:57 Joe Lonsdale I mean, so the main markets we were already in, like, New York, San Francisco, LA, Chicago, DC, you know, we, we complemented that with, like, Miami, with Pittsburgh, with, you know, Boston, with Toronto, which was our first international… 2 times in the scene

How John Mack Saved Morgan Stanley & Transformed Wall Street · Joe Lonsdale Feb 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:48 John Mack Or a luxury ship, and they would go from San Francisco to Australia, and the bankers would be there for a month.

This New Startup Is Disrupting Healthcare As We Know It · Joe Lonsdale Feb 9, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:28 Dr. Clay Johnston So my realizations at, at UCSF, because I was in, um, San Francisco before, were that, uh, that we were innovating much too slowly.

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

  • ▶ 7:29 Joe Lonsdale I think you must have seen, seen us on Marina Boulevard in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene

Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale Jan 11, 2023 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 15:15 Joe Lonsdale So one of the, you know, I moved out of San Francisco because my wife didn't feel comfortable walking around the neighborhood. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:19 Andrew Yang Finance, consulting, law, tech, medicine, or academia in New York, San Francisco, uh, Chicago, LA, DC, Boston. 6 times in the scene

How Psychedelic Medicine Could Transform Healthcare | Why Medical School Is Broken · Joe Lonsdale Aug 8, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:53 Sebastian Caliri So I drove out with him, actually, to a clinic on the outskirts of San Francisco, and we sat together while my friend received an hour of IV, IV ketamine therapy, listening to music, and over the course of a couple sessions, I saw him come…

Zach Latta: Founding Hack Club & Inspiring the Next Generation of Builders · Joe Lonsdale Apr 27, 2022 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:43 Zach Latta And I moved to San Francisco to become a programmer. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:05 Zach Latta And that is really what led me to move to San Francisco and eventually start Hat Club. 3 times in the scene

The Year That Changed Medicine Forever | Francisco Gimenez Explains the Biotech Revolution. · Joe Lonsdale Apr 18, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:00 Dr. Francisco Gimenez Uh, and then for anything, and they started out going like, let's go to Florida, let's go to Miami, let's go to Los Angeles, go to San Francisco.

Free Housing Won't Solve the Homeless Crisis. Here's What Will. · Joe Lonsdale Mar 24, 2022 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 9:38 Judge Glock Uh, you know, we're talking in San Francisco or, uh, San Diego or L.A. around, you know, 800,000 to a million per single family home. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:06 Joe Lonsdale One of the big things for me was just living here in Austin and seeing, you know, and seeing how, I guess, the mayor was very progressive, and he actually went to San Francisco and L.A., and he copied some of their policies, and, ah, and,… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:42 Joe Lonsdale Tom Wolfe's actually San Francisco.
  • ▶ 24:09 Joe Lonsdale And I understand San Francisco had a certain number of homeless people. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:25 Judge Glock I often like to quite quote, uh, uh, former mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown there, who was there right before Gavin Newsom. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:23 Judge Glock Uh, when cities like Austin or San Francisco or Denver voted on, say, camping bans, overwhelmingly passed in some of these most liberal cities in America.
  • ▶ 33:18 Judge Glock We're in fact in the median of San Francisco voters on this issue. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:57 Tom Wolf Nowhere is the homeless crisis more apparent than San Francisco. 2 times in the scene

How to Fix Homelessness, Expand Telehealth, and Defeat Special Interests with Jared Meyer · Joe Lonsdale Mar 10, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 20:11 Jared Meyer Like, I truly think it's the homelessness industrial complex, because I thought it's so obvious what you left in San Francisco, that model of allowing people to sleep on the streets anywhere they want, do drugs anywhere they want, that… 4 times in the scene

Reviving a Culture of Innovation with Tyler Cowen · Joe Lonsdale Feb 16, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:48 Tyler Cowen Austin obviously has been the big winner from all of this, and the big loser is San Francisco.
  • ▶ 28:32 Joe Lonsdale I mean, I would love to get 30 young bright students, and I'd love to have them figure out how to, as one of the things for the course, open a robin store in San Francisco as a small business, and then talk about how hard that was. 2 times in the scene

Joe Lonsdale and Pano Kanelos on Building a New World-Class University · Joe Lonsdale Feb 10, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:04 Joe Lonsdale and they see like the 30 things that get in their way to do this in San Francisco and it becomes like this thing where they all of a sudden, now they feel it themselves or, or going to a country that, you know, that has a very strong top…

Joe Lonsdale and Chris Sprowls: How to Defeat Special Interests & Cronyism · Joe Lonsdale Jan 20, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:14 Joe Lonsdale I come from San Francisco where I was just furious on, uh, earlier there's a, you know, last weeks there was a two-year-old that was shot on the plate in

How to Fix Dysfunctional Government with Esper CEO Maleka Momand · Joe Lonsdale Dec 22, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:15 Maleka Momand Um, I was playing, like, professionally for the last 10 years before kind of coming to San Francisco and figuring out that I wanted to work in tech. 2 times in the scene

Billionaire Founder of KIND & Shark Tank Star Daniel Lubetzky · Joe Lonsdale Dec 15, 2021 · 1 mention

Whole Foods Co-Founder & CEO John Mackey: Conscious Capitalism and Repairing America's Division · Joe Lonsdale Sep 15, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:09 Joe Lonsdale People here don't seem quite as triggered into their tribes as they did back in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene

Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty: Courage, Accountability, Better Schools, and Safer Cities · Joe Lonsdale Aug 24, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:19 Adrian Fenty You know, if you're going to complain about, you know, the, you know, what's going on in San Francisco or California, then you should also be trying to do something about it in any way you can, but don't just complain that San Francisco 2 times in the scene

Balaji Srinivasan: Bitcoin, China, the "Woke" Mob, and the Future of the Internet · Joe Lonsdale Aug 11, 2021 · 4 mentions

NFL Legend Ronnie Lott on Grit, Leadership & What America Means to Him · Joe Lonsdale Aug 3, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:54 Ronnie Lott To me, that's when I first, when I first moved to the San Francisco and to the Valley in
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