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How AI Agents Are Creating an Infinitely Scalable Workforce · Joe Lonsdale Jun 18, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:07 Joe Lonsdale Nima Gamasari was one of our stars from Palantir after graduating Stanford.
  • ▶ 1:44 Joe Lonsdale You studied computer science at Stanford right after me, and we worked together at Palantir for a long time. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:22 Nima Ghamsari I was a freshman at Stanford. 3 times in the scene

How AI Agents are Changing Investing · Joe Lonsdale Apr 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:49 Joe Lonsdale So you're an engineering kid, a physics nerd, went to Stanford, you started a PhD, you dropped out of a PhD.

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

  • ▶ 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,…

Jake Paul on Endorsing Trump & the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale Mar 19, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:00 Joe Lonsdale You were at Stanford about a decade after me, it sounds like, and you built some consumer tech companies, obviously consumer needs, needs attention. 2 times in the scene

Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale Feb 17, 2026 · 1 mention

Secret Tech Billionaire Is Betting $1B on This · Joe Lonsdale Oct 17, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 0:13 Joe Liemandt I went to Stanford for a few years, famously dropped out.
  • ▶ 2:30 Joe Lonsdale And you were at Stanford after that? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:19 Joe Liemandt And so, uh, I then went to Stanford and, you know, Professor Feigenbaum is considered the father of expert systems, and so,
  • ▶ 11:29 Joe Liemandt So how, how we got into the, how I got into education really in, in a big way was a decade ago, a Stanford grad, Mackenzie Price was a co-founder of Alpha School.
  • ▶ 18:47 Joe Liemandt And for 40 years, right, the, you know, Dean Schwartz at Stanford and the schools of education all have written 10,000 papers on how kids could learn two, five, or 10 times faster.
  • ▶ 20:24 Joe Liemandt My daughter, my older daughter, who is, you know, 1600 SAT, math, English, double major at Stanford, who went through the old system, you know, and she was at Alpha for 10 years with no teacher.
  • ▶ 27:03 Joe Liemandt You know, after I dropped out of school at Stanford, my dad had the famous quote of, you're a moron, and you're an idiot, and all that.

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

  • ▶ 35:48 Joe Lonsdale And speaking of builders, you know, I took computer science at Stanford and I actually, it was very theoretical, which I enjoyed as well.

The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale Sep 15, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:07 Joe Lonsdale He was the editor-in-chief of the Stanford Review, which I was as well, 20 years ago, and Peter Thiel was as well when he was at Stanford.
  • ▶ 19:01 Joe Lonsdale You grew up in Iowa and you went to Stanford as did I, and you're also, 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 2:17 Harish Abbott Um, yeah, like my, I grew up in India in a small town, you know, in a middle class family, and, um, I think went to IIT, and then, you know, schools here in the US, um, uh, Illinois, Urbana, Champaign, and, and, and Stanford, and I, you…

Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale Aug 29, 2025 · 4 mentions

From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale Aug 13, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:36 Ian Cinnamon So at MIT studied brain and cog sci, and it's funny, even in studying brain and cog sci, I, uh, you, you went to Stanford, right?
  • ▶ 31:13 Joe Lonsdale I mean, North Korea has multiple times had their leaders threaten Palo Alto because, you know, you know, Perry was the, you know, was working against them in the defense department and now teaches at Stanford.

Why California is Collapsing From Within · Joe Lonsdale Jun 19, 2025 · 5 mentions

How 200MPH Flying Cars are about to Change the World · Joe Lonsdale Jun 4, 2025 · 1 mention

Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale Apr 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:59 Peter Thiel Uh, it's, you know, it was, it was a big achievement in a way for them to, for students to get into, you know, elite colleges like Yale or Harvard or, or Stanford.
  • ▶ 6:37 Peter Thiel Those are like the four big tracks you have people had at Stanford in the,

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

  • ▶ 10:56 Joe Lonsdale And, you know, and Milton Friedman, who I got to know when I was at Stanford, he was, he was there at Hoover a lot, was more about shareholder primacy.

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

  • ▶ 3:07 Joe Lonsdale Yeah, I'd met you through a friend you clerked with in the nice circuit, and one of my smartest friends from Stanford, really impressed by you, and we got to know each other.
  • ▶ 13:40 Zach Bookman Core and fundamental insights that you and Nate and a third guy from Stanford started a non-profit.

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale Nov 22, 2024 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 1:02 Joe Lonsdale He's a Stanford professor, one of the most famous authors in the innovation world.
  • ▶ 1:30 Joe Lonsdale And these days you're a professor at Stanford and founder of the, is it called the Gordian Knott Center for National Security Innovation?
  • ▶ 4:04 Steve Blank And then another with a junior professor from Stony Brook who just started at Stanford named John Hennessy, um, and that became MIPS computers. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:18 Steve Blank And it turned out there was a single professor at Stanford named Fred Turman, who was part of Vandiver's Bush Office of Science, Research and Development. 7 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 22:09 Elad Gil It's Stanford, it's MIT, it's Harvard, and then there's sort of the next set, which is like Duke, it's Carnegie Mellon, you know, it's a handful of places. 2 times in the scene

Economist Vs. Billionaire: How The Myth Of Income Inequality Is Dividing America · Joe Lonsdale Oct 25, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:43 Phil Gramm Um, uh, Stanford or Harvard or the University of Chicago, no one has ever said that these numbers are wrong.

Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale Apr 25, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:49 Joe Lonsdale Like one of the best things at Stanford that I, I really enjoyed was, uh, CS two, 48 was one of the courses. 2 times in the scene

Ep 83: A New Leukemia Cure with Ivan Dimov of Orca Bio · Joe Lonsdale Apr 5, 2024 · 2 mentions

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

Ep 77: Mike Solana on Exposing Corruption, Saving San Francisco, and Building a New Media Empire · Joe Lonsdale Feb 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:39 Mike Solana Uh, we came on to build out his class at Stanford, called CS-Intyre, that would ultimately become his book,

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

  • ▶ 3:01 Niall Ferguson But now since October the seventh, we realize that Jewish students are being intimidated and threatened, singled out in some classes on the Stanford campus.

Ep 73: Lessons from Palantir & How Candid Health Is Fixing the $280B Healthcare Billing Fiasco · Joe Lonsdale Dec 7, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:53 Nick Perry Um, stayed there my whole life until college time, came down to the Bay Area to go to Stanford, and then, uh, after, I was at Palantir for five years, um, I did mostly healthcare work there, and we'll probably get into this, but, uh, some…

Ep 71: No Debt, Top Professors & Personal Coaches — A New Community College with Tade Oyerinde · Joe Lonsdale Nov 23, 2023 · 1 mention

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 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:47 Joe Lonsdale Bob McGrew is an old friend from Stanford. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:34 Joe Lonsdale We are in a couple of groups at Stanford together, including Fisci. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:33 Joe Lonsdale You know, when I was at Stanford in computer science and graphics, I was obsessed with Nvidia at the time.

Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism · Joe Lonsdale Jul 18, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:35 Joe Lonsdale No, it's the kind of thing we talk about in our dorm room, we're drunk with friends in the fraternity at Stanford, which I think is very reasonable, but maybe not reasonable to use to, to, to create international policy.

Alex Karp On The Future Of AI And Building A Multi Billion-Dollar Company · Joe Lonsdale Jul 14, 2023 · 4 mentions

Ep 59: Adi Berlia Explains India's Remarkable Rise Out of Socialism · Joe Lonsdale May 24, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:44 Joe Lonsdale You went to Stanford with me.
  • ▶ 13:25 Joe Lonsdale You went to Stanford, Harvard, you know, afterwards as well.
  • ▶ 25:53 Adi Berlia Uh, Chris Isert, who, uh, also from our fraternity at Stanford, and, and, and what we realized was that, you know, the average cost of technology involved in clinical trials was something like, at that time, about half a million dollars,…

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

Ep 55: Nathan Mintz on Directed Energy, a New Space Age & the Final Hurdles to a Driverless Future · Joe Lonsdale Apr 27, 2023 · 2 mentions

Ep 54: Peter Attia, Ryan Holiday & Joe Lonsdale Discuss Longevity & America's Health · Joe Lonsdale Apr 19, 2023 · 1 mention

John Chambers & Pankaj Patel Changed the World with Cisco. Now They're Doing It Again with Nile. · Joe Lonsdale Mar 1, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:44 John Chambers You then outline a startup mentality, and as you know, most of your startups, whether they're here near Stanford or near University of, uh,

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

Ryan Holiday: How Stoicism Changed the World · Joe Lonsdale Feb 2, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:58 Joe Lonsdale You know, in the 19 eighties, we had these big rallies at Stanford, I think was one of the first schools where I think Jesse Jackson was saying, hey, hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go.

Kimmy Scotti: How to Spot (and Build) the Next Big Thing · Joe Lonsdale Jan 26, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 27:52 Joe Lonsdale So you, so you, so you brought on people from Stanford, Harvard, Harvard, Penn, and these are dermatologists, you're experts. 3 times in the scene

How Psychedelic Medicine Could Transform Healthcare | Why Medical School Is Broken · Joe Lonsdale Aug 8, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:06 Joe Lonsdale And then after that started medical school at Stanford and decided to leave after a year. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:11 Joe Lonsdale Tell us about why you decided to leave Stanford. 2 times in the scene

He Built Tesla's FIRST Roadster Battery. Find Out What He's Building Next! · Joe Lonsdale Apr 21, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:12 Joe Lonsdale And you hold a bachelor's and master's in engineering from Stanford, which I went to as well. 3 times in the scene

The Year That Changed Medicine Forever | Francisco Gimenez Explains the Biotech Revolution. · Joe Lonsdale Apr 18, 2022 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 0:54 Joe Lonsdale You're a doctor from your Stanford PhD in bioinformatics.
  • ▶ 3:23 Joe Lonsdale As a Stanford guy, I can forgive you for that mistake. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:40 Joe Lonsdale I can probably learn a few things from Stanford.
  • ▶ 40:25 Dr. Francisco Gimenez For us to, you know, come to the U.S. for me, able to get, like, an amazing education at public schools, and then go to Stanford and get, like, an amazing PhD, and be able to work in venture capital, and bring innovation, you know, to…

Don't Ban CRT; Win With Better Ideas. Thomas Chatterton Williams Talks Race & Liberalism · Joe Lonsdale Mar 3, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 13:54 Joe Lonsdale When you're talking about what led to this, like one of the things that I think is really important is in the 19 eighties, Stanford dropped teaching the history of Western civilization. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:31 Thomas Chatterton Williams It's actually kind of amazing that this is the first time someone in a while since Stanford or Duke or something that somebody ambitiously is trying to start a new.

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

Joe Lonsdale and Pano Kanelos on Building a New World-Class University · Joe Lonsdale Feb 10, 2022 · 3 mentions

Rep. Ro Khanna & Joe Lonsdale Debate Income Inequality and Regulating Big Tech · Joe Lonsdale Jan 14, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 28:47 Rep. Ro Khanna Uh, a competition, but I'm not, look, Stanford, you know, where I taught and you went, you know, the reason it costs so much is partly it's, it's like going to a living in a five-star hotel, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:11 Joe Lonsdale You probably heard where some of my friends and I with Neil Ferguson and Barry Weiss are trying to create a competitor to Stanford now in Austin here. 2 times in the scene

Discovering Life-Saving Drugs from Fungi! · Joe Lonsdale Sep 24, 2021 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:25 Joe Lonsdale Maureen, you're the CEO and founder of Hexagon, and you were previously at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:09 Joe Lonsdale And you figured out in your postdoc at Stanford, when you're, when you were at the center of Stanford, you figured out that you could look at the DNA and figure out with a good chance what the fungi was trying to target because it was…
  • ▶ 14:08 Maureen Hillenmeyer So I did a PhD at Stanford in bioinformatics, and I went into that assuming I would do academic research, um, and during my time at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:48 Maureen Hillenmeyer I had a professor at Stanford say the, um, currency in industry is, is money or financial, and the currency in academia is credit. 2 times in the scene

Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale Sep 3, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:36 Wesley Chan You know, this guy had first job out of school, out of Stanford, and he was given, you know, Gmail.

Niall Ferguson: Why Great Civilizations Rise and Fall · Joe Lonsdale Aug 18, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:31 Joe Lonsdale Neil's a friend, and he's also one of the great living historians and economists, and from my point of view, you've written over a dozen very popular books, and you've taught at Oxford and Harvard, and you're at Stanford and Hoover now as…

Balaji Srinivasan: Bitcoin, China, the "Woke" Mob, and the Future of the Internet · Joe Lonsdale Aug 11, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:04 Joe Lonsdale A 75 year old white guy talking about race to his buddy is probably not going to come across well to, to, to the third, 30 somethings from Stanford.

Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale Jul 22, 2021 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 13:47 unnamed speaker That's because you went to Stanford. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:40 Sujay Jaswa You know, there's, there are, I mean, you have Stanford and Berkeley here, which have tons of smart people. 2 times in the scene

Arthur Brooks: Finding Happiness -- What Most People Get Wrong and Few Get Right · Joe Lonsdale Jul 13, 2021 · 2 mentions

Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale Jun 29, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:07 Joe Lonsdale One of my biases is that, you know, in Stanford in the 19 eighties, they had this whole thing with Jesse Jackson where they throw Western Civ, right?
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