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Why AI Creators Keep Panicking (They're Wrong)
- ▶ 31:03 Aaron Levie And like, I don't think we've done the math on this yet, but, but think about like, you know, the, you know, Silicon Valley as a, as a location, but think about more as an industry was, you know, kind of the dominant hire of engineers…
America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild
- ▶ 2:43 Shyam Sankar Well, one of the things I really hoped, helping stand up Detachment-to-a-one, you know, how do we build more of a bridge between Silicon Valley and the department?
Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
- ▶ 41:29 unnamed speaker So we're starting to see that in Silicon Valley.
How AI Agents Are Transforming This $140 Billion Industry · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:30 Joe Lonsdale All right, Aaron, you spent a big chunk of your career as a builder all over the valley before, and, and you decided to take a big swing and create Outset. 2 times in the scene
How AI Agents Are Creating an Infinitely Scalable Workforce · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:26 Joe Lonsdale Became one of the kind of hot SaaS companies in Silicon Valley, buying the billions of dollars.
- ▶ 15:47 Joe Lonsdale So this business really accelerated in 2016, uh, became one of the kind of hot SaaS companies in Silicon Valley, valued into the values unicorn, valued into billions of dollars.
Trump’s Plan for AI Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 9:31 Jacob Helberg How, you know, there, there's something really unique about American culture, and that has given rise to Silicon Valley, and when a lot of countries have tried to replicate Silicon Valley, but there really is, you know, to have, like, to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:55 Joe Lonsdale People there who are so talented, but I think for now, it's a lot of them in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:59 Joe Lonsdale Well, we get this as a power a lot of Silicon Valley.
Palantir CTO: We Need More Heretics · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 6:47 Shyam Sankar You know, it's like most people were working in kind of like bullsh** calendar apps or something in the valley at the time, and here there was like these 12 people who were like, yeah, we're gonna solve problems in national security.
- ▶ 10:02 Joe Lonsdale I mean, everyone now wants FTEs, like everyone in the Valley.
- ▶ 35:47 Shyam Sankar Well, one of the things I really hoped helping stand up detachment to a one, you know, how do we build more of a bridge between Silicon Valley and the department?
How to Turn $15K Into $1M in 2026 · Joe Lonsdale
How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 5:51 Scott Wu Um, and a lot of the best companies that we see in, in, in the Valley are the ones that are just able to, to, to roll out, like, technology pushes or breakthroughs that, that others have not.
- ▶ 12:03 Scott Wu Yeah, you know, I, I think the simple way to put it is, is, I mean, to Russell's point, all of these traditional industries, you know, it's, you've, you've, in Silicon Valley, the way we think about software engineers is, is, you know,
- ▶ 30:47 Russell Kaplan Uh, and, and it kind of kick-started, uh, actually a lot of, a lot of modern, uh, software, you know, where, uh, where I, where I studied at, at Stanford, a lot of that, the Silicon Valley ecosystem was actually really invested in by the,…
Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 29:33 unnamed speaker You will now see companies in Silicon Valley that run a 102 103 hundred K ACVs and think they can get away with the forward deployed motion
- ▶ 55:39 unnamed speaker So we're starting to see that in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 59:28 unnamed speaker And Silicon Valley is obviously at the center of it. 3 times in the scene
AI Expert: Agents Will Take Over Everything · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 19:35 Joe Lonsdale So we're obsessed in Silicon Valley with talent and the very, very best are the ones that build the top companies.
The Secret Team Fixing America's Broken Systems · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:00 Joe Lonsdale My friend Joe Jebbia is the founder of Airbnb and have maybe what I'd call typical Silicon Valley views.
- ▶ 2:44 Joe Lonsdale I think you, if I, if I may say so, I think you had what were more mainstream Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 10:32 Joe Gebbia This is moving at Silicon Valley speed.
- ▶ 16:31 Joe Lonsdale Uh, a lot of people in Silicon Valley have been giving you a lot of crap who you used to work with. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:07 Joe Gebbia I think it's working because we are really pulling in veterans out of Silicon Valley.
Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:02 Joe Lonsdale Emil Michael ran growth at Uber and built one of the fastest-paced companies in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
America’s New AI Strategy: "We're Building a Tech Force" · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 8:22 Joe Lonsdale You authored, Scott, one of the definitive guides to Silicon Valley as well, Secrets of Sand Hill Road. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
Why It's Legally Impossible To Build In America · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 25:07 Joe Lonsdale In Silicon Valley. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:41 Philip Howard They're not Silicon Valley.
How AI Agents Are Transforming Logistics · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 32:11 Joe Lonsdale Tell us about the talent game in Silicon Valley right now.
From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 3:10 Ian Cinnamon Um, I had the opportunity to work with this, uh, uh, Silicon Valley, uh, entrepreneur, Mark Pincus.
Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:35 Reid Hoffman The Democratic Party really did alienate a section of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:52 Joe Lonsdale Let's hear from one of the great builders of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 5:33 Reid Hoffman And it's part of the, like, there's these truisms, aphorisms that we have in Silicon Valley, like A players only hire A players and B players hire C players.
- ▶ 18:44 Reid Hoffman But I'm really want to look at is the areas that most people in Silicon Valley are not looking at.
- ▶ 27:39 Reid Hoffman Well, I think the, uh, look, and I, I regret this and wish it didn't happen, but I think the Democratic Party really did alienate a, uh, section of Silicon Valley and the tech people, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:09 Joe Lonsdale Like, who are the next leaders in Silicon Valley we should be looking to? 3 times in the scene
From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 9:19 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, and by the way, the good news of that transition is the transition to knowledge work has worked really well, and, you know, we live and work in places like Silicon Valley and Austin and others that have,
- ▶ 13:40 Marc Andreessen Because you're, which is what, what Silicon Valley has done, right?
Tucker, Shapiro & The New Right—Dave Rubin Calls for an Honest Debate · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 24:31 Joe Lonsdale And that that's something that this Silicon Valley culture, the legal culture just missing.
Why California is Collapsing From Within · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 2:35 Joe Lonsdale What sparked your interest to come out to the United States and into Silicon Valley?
- ▶ 15:46 Steve Hilton I had a lot of help actually from people here, here in, here in Silicon Valley who'd really understood the,
- ▶ 24:04 Steve Hilton All the great geniuses like yourself in Silicon Valley.
From Math Prodigy to AI Genius: How Scott Wu Built Devin · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 2:05 Joe Lonsdale It's cool to see you go on to build, like, one of the giants in Silicon Valley, hopefully it looks like, but let's, let's, let's step back a bit.
- ▶ 11:27 Scott Wu Yeah, I mean, I, I think it's, and I think it's, it's, to an extent, it's always been the case in tech and Silicon Valley, you know, that, that a lot of the smartest people, you know, one of my favorite, my favorite things is Mark…
- ▶ 16:41 Joe Lonsdale Scott, not all of our listeners are, are in the computer science world here in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 22:17 Joe Lonsdale Yeah, no, it's interesting because to be really good as like a, as a CEO in the Valley, you have to like understand the things a couple steps down.
The Truth About AI: Sam Lessin’s Contrarian Take · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:52 Joe Lonsdale My friend Sam Lesson is one of the most influential and interesting writers and thinkers and investors amongst the leaders of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:50 Joe Lonsdale How'd you make your way from Harvard to Silicon Valley?
- ▶ 14:51 Joe Lonsdale It's one of the top angel funds in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 17:00 Sam Lessin Look, I mean, I think for a long time in Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley loves the story of disruption, right?
- ▶ 24:07 Joe Lonsdale You have to actually have the tech and the operations and operations are something that Silicon Valley historically, like when I do advanced manufacturing now, or when I, you know, work in some of these other areas is operations and stuff. 2 times in the scene
Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 9:33 Joe Lonsdale Yeah, we saw them doing a lot of things that made us suspect that they're actually gotten way behind Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 40:25 Joe Lonsdale And, um, let's, you know, speaking of timing, there's a big vibe shift going on in Silicon Valley right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:35 Peter Thiel It was, um, you know, even if people did not support President Trump in 20, 24, didn't support him publicly, uh, there was a incredible felt sense among all the top CEOs I know in Silicon Valley that there's all the stuff you can't talk… 2 times in the scene
The Man Behind the Military's Smartest Self-Driving Vehicles · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 19:10 Joe Lonsdale All these other car companies doing self-driving, there's these annoying cars that were driving around Silicon Valley for a decade.
$2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 16:45 Joe Lonsdale It's one of the things that our companies, like our big thing of open gov and a lot of things we did in Silicon Valley is let's do something where the customers love you
- ▶ 21:01 Zach Bookman Silicon Valley executives who all want a quick win off this network effect.
- ▶ 29:02 Joe Lonsdale Well, it's Silicon Valley DNA. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:50 Zach Bookman I mean, most people in Silicon Valley aren't actually at their desk at 7:30 in the morning.
- ▶ 47:53 Zach Bookman It's funny because I came from the land of government and, you know, you in many respects taught me a lot about the Silicon Valley ecosystem and got me involved. 2 times in the scene
The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 38:06 Joe Lonsdale There's a great Silicon Valley book about this happening in 2040 for president.
- ▶ 45:23 Brendan McCord And I also think there's an Oxford Austin axis that I have to work on because what I like about Austin is it's entrepreneurs that are unafraid to build outside of the Silicon Valley orthodoxy. 2 times in the scene
Turning Whiskey Into Millions — The Hustler Behind WhistlePig · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 52:51 Joe Lonsdale This is Fremont, East Bay, California, Silicon Valley.
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:16 Steve Blank On a good day, China operates like Silicon Valley, and if we're really lucky on that same day, the DoD is operating like General Motors.
- ▶ 0:57 Joe Lonsdale Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur who's been building in Silicon Valley since the late 19 seventies.
- ▶ 1:41 Joe Lonsdale After serving in the Air Force, you landed your first job, I think it was in 1978 in Silicon Valley. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:22 Steve Blank Interesting tech in different markets in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 7:41 Joe Lonsdale You give a popular lecture called The Secret History of Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 14:57 Steve Blank On a good day, China operates like Silicon Valley, and if we're really lucky on that same day, the DOD is operating like General Motors. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:32 Steve Blank But we all go to Washington, and we talk with individual voices about our line items, or maybe, you know, our space, but Silicon Valley Defense hasn't spoken as a group, and I don't mean as a group saying, gee, we need more money, but as a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:10 Joe Lonsdale There's an organization there that we could be doing better in the valley. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:29 Steve Blank To live through the valley of when we were literally cutting ruby lift masks with an exacto knife and, and microprocessors, uh, when we maybe, I think had a couple of thousand, you know, transistors on a chip, and now we have like tens and…
Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:50 Joe Lonsdale He's one of the great thinkers, great investors in Silicon Valley.
- ▶ 1:21 Joe Lonsdale How'd you make it to Silicon Valley?
- ▶ 2:59 Elad Gil Google at the time was sort of scaling, and it was soaking in all the talent, um, in Silicon Valley, or at least all the entrepreneurial talent, and so, um,
- ▶ 4:28 Elad Gil I mean, it was basically a golden era where, um, Silicon Valley had just gone through a major depression. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:20 Joe Lonsdale It's very much the old kind of like classical liberal Silicon Valley or freedom and free speech and everything.
He Predicted Putin's Invasion. Now He Predicts When China Will Invade Taiwan. · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 39:56 Dmitri Alperovitch I don't have to tell you the power of innovation, what we can do in the Valley, in a place like Austin, really across the country.
- ▶ 54:30 Dmitri Alperovitch I know that DC is kind of a dirty word for many in the Valley and elsewhere, but the reality is that geopolitics is everywhere.
Electronic Warfare and Real-Life Force Fields! Epirus CEO Andy Lowery · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 30:48 Andy Lowery Like, what has caused this sudden need for us to say, hey, we would really like Silicon Valley
- ▶ 33:43 Andy Lowery Silicon Valley type technology and culture.
- ▶ 35:08 Joe Lonsdale PhDs in like certain technical areas, but I haven't seen the engineering culture of Silicon Valley be reflected in them as much as that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:51 Andy Lowery Is confounding traditional DoD, and we need to have a fusion of big data and Silicon Valley type orientated technology, if you want to think of it that way, with the advanced electronics know-how that we've gotten from sort of our military… 2 times in the scene
Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 23:59 Joe Lonsdale So it's like you guys have a pretty good track record in terms of like helping run Silicon Valley.
Ep 81: How Palantir Star Tyler Scriven Is Helping Small Business Compete With Amazon · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 2:26 Joe Lonsdale And how'd you make your way from there to, to, to Silicon Valley and eventually Palantir?
- ▶ 6:33 Tyler Scriven Uh, to leave Silicon Valley altogether. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:18 Tyler Scriven You know, the plan was, um, uh, you know, leave the valley and take that knowledge and connectivity and, and, and culture and, uh, and, and technology and go and embed myself in a, in the real world and discover some interesting problems…
Ep 80: Leonard Leo Knows How to Win and How to Save Our Country · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 18:06 Joe Lonsdale There's a lot of people in Silicon Valley
Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 23:07 Emil Michael These are operational, you know, business unit owner types, um, and they've spread all over the valley and it's a great
- ▶ 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 75: Leadership Lessons with Intuit Founder & Silicon Valley Legend Scott Cook · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:14 Joe Lonsdale Scott Cook is one of my favorite founders, leaders, and mentors in Silicon Valley. 2 times in the scene
Ep 72: Illegal Chinese Bio Labs & Secret Police Inside America! Congressman Mike Gallagher · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 18:43 Joe Lonsdale Yeah, I mean, this is something I, I sometimes wonder about, because you see so many of America's institutions in decay, and you see that many of them have been deeply compromised by the CCP, and I realize it's two separate things a lot of…
- ▶ 25:13 Joe Lonsdale And I think people in Silicon Valley are practical and they realize, first of all, that these, this is an aggressive government you can't trust.
- ▶ 28:25 Congressman Mike Gallagher A stricter set of guard role guard rails that Wall Street and Silicon Valley are not initially comfortable with with an appropriate got glide path.
Ep 71: No Debt, Top Professors & Personal Coaches — A New Community College with Tade Oyerinde · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 8:20 Tade Oyerinde And, um, and, and they don't have the resources to, to basically do what we in Silicon Valley call customer support. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:27 Tade Oyerinde And, um, I just, I got to know a bunch of great people in Silicon Valley who care a lot about solving these kinds of problems, yourself included, you know, some of our, our other friends and, um, and, um, you know, it's funny, like…
- ▶ 34:44 Tade Oyerinde Everyone in Silicon Valley said, are you stupid?
Ep 70: Andrew McAfee on the Science Behind the World's Most Valuable Companies · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:04 Joe Lonsdale Helped a lot of us think about what we're doing here in Silicon Valley better. 3 times in the scene
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