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Trump’s Plan for AI Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 29:15 Joe Lonsdale Is there anything that's, like, particularly annoying about working in D.C.? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:04 Joe Lonsdale We started this podcast to push back against, like, cynics and doomers, and what do you think you can achieve during your time in Washington that, that, that's positive?
From Wall Street King to Federal Prison: Michael Milken's Story · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 18:23 Richard Sandler Yeah, I would say, you know, the lawyer who was a very, very well-known, uh, defense lawyer at the time that we retained initially, unfortunately died of cancer about a year and a half later, was a guy named, uh, Edward Bennett Williams,…
Exposing a Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal (Using Palantir) · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 7:24 Kelly Loeffler And I, I found when I got to Washington that, um, the political establishments, uh, particularly on the left, are pretty hostile to people who have an interest in finance and understanding how to run a P and L, a balance sheet, and, and, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:25 Kelly Loeffler a 150 Washington D.C. based 5 times in the scene
AI Expert: Agents Will Take Over Everything · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 3:06 Kevin Mandia Hey, growing up in the, you know, the DC area, we know a lot about AOL.
- ▶ 14:46 Kevin Mandia I'm flying to DC.
Investing in 2026: What You Need to Know (SEC Chairman) · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:56 Paul Atkins So, um, ah, and we're here in Austin, we had a roundtable, so decided to get out of Washington and, and go to the heartland and talk about, ah, issues around, ah, trading, ah, rules in the stock markets, basically the equity markets.
The Secret Team Fixing America's Broken Systems · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:14 Joe Lonsdale Let's hear from what he thinks about what's going on in DC.
- ▶ 1:54 Joe Lonsdale Like what, what's been interesting or what have you learned or uncovered about how DC works? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:04 Joe Lonsdale So why did you decide to step up and serve in DC? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:13 Joe Gebbia Massimo Vignelli, for all the graphic design fans out there, and all of their contemporaries came through DC and actually contributed.
- ▶ 31:59 Joe Gebbia DC.gov, which is a new website to help attract law enforcement talent to come join the task force here in DC.
- ▶ 33:42 Joe Lonsdale So this is a very unusual DC conversation.
- ▶ 37:04 Joe Lonsdale But there's a, Joe, there's a lot to be discouraged about in D.C. 3 times in the scene
These Jobs Will Skyrocket in the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 3:16 Chris Sununu That's kind of like a good thing, and we don't have enough of that, I think, out of DC.
- ▶ 10:14 Chris Sununu Washington doesn't do any of that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:24 Chris Sununu The reason that, you know, we're going to get into talking about the balanced budget amendment on a national level, but the reason I'm, I'm optimistic and I get excited about kind of forcing Washington to 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:17 Chris Sununu This is my real cynicism on Washington.
- ▶ 33:26 Chris Sununu We have folks in DC that get it, that are talking about it. 2 times in the scene
America’s New AI Strategy: "We're Building a Tech Force" · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 31:26 Joe Lonsdale You know, Scott, the dysfunction in DC black pills, a lot of people
Why It's Legally Impossible To Build In America · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 31:33 Philip Howard All these insiders in Washington who, who do well just by keeping the status quo the way it is. 3 times in the scene
What Steve Jobs Knew About Innovation That You Don't · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 12:22 Matt Ridley San Francisco, New York, Washington.
How this Governor is Proving Trump Right · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:20 Joe Lonsdale People are grateful that our nation's capital is once again becoming a lot more lovable.
The One Thing AI Will Never Replace · Joe Lonsdale
Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 19:11 Joe Lonsdale And similarly, we could say, well, we don't think there should be a new state in DC. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:51 Senator Eric Schmitt It's kind of like what's happening in Washington right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:05 Senator Eric Schmitt Uh, Bridge Colby, you know, a lot of people that, you know, that, that believe that, um, and I do that, um, America, that permanent Washington's sort of impression and, and, uh, policy on all of this stuff, it works well in the cocktail… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:09 Senator Eric Schmitt we got that done and it's, it's expression of will that we can do these things that, that some people think, oh, Washington can't pull that off.
New Face of DOGE Agenda Explains the Big Beautiful Bill · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:22 Joe Lonsdale These are terms you're going to start hearing a lot more about in the coming months, setting us up for some very big fights about the power of the president, his ability to fire people, his ability to set the tone in D.C. and what power he… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36 Joe Lonsdale D.C.
- ▶ 22:41 Russ Vaught To, to make it so that people in ordinary course of businesses, ah, are constantly having to deal and look, look over their shoulder from someone, a supervisor, an examiner here in D.C., and just give you an example of one that we tried to…
From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 17:01 Marc Andreessen Um, and so, you know, and, and by the way, a lot of this is happening right now in, in Washington.
- ▶ 31:02 Marc Andreessen And there's, and there's a bunch of, by the way, there's a bunch of, of, of leaders of that party in Washington that are now, you know, pushing that quite hard.
Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 12:02 Peter Thiel You'll just be blackballed by everybody.
- ▶ 40:11 Joe Lonsdale Led me to understand the NGO thing, which I then was very helpful with, with, with DC, and we actually are working with people running a lot of agencies in DC to go after the NGOs and based on things we've learned in the last several years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:29 Peter Thiel He didn't want to spend his time, you know, at congressional hearings in DC.
Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 11:47 Tom Cotton Polite society in Washington, D.C. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:55 Tom Cotton Um, China has spies running all over Washington DC and elsewhere, targeting intelligence officers, military officers, high ranking government officials. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:31 Tom Cotton And there's no living American who understands what it's like to live in a world where Washington doesn't call the shots, where most foreign capitals, when they think about any kind of significant action, not just military action, but… 2 times in the scene
Exercise Scientist: How AI & “Miracle Drugs” Can Make You Superhuman · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 4:17 Joe Lonsdale The extreme incompetence and fraud are, you know, they're very close to, as we're seeing in DC.
$2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:06 Joe Lonsdale It doesn't just mean Doge in DC.
- ▶ 1:54 Zach Bookman I grew up in Washington, D.C., uh, born in D.C., grew up in Maryland, went to high school in D.C., and then I went to the University of Maryland. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:43 Zach Bookman He worked at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, and I mean, he was at his desk at 7:30 in the morning every day.
- ▶ 44:17 Joe Lonsdale You know, you know, I work with Cicero obviously on the state, and I'm really passionate about that, and it gets way less play than it should relative to the, I think all of us have this instinctual thing, like being in a, in a dog pack…
The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 35:49 Joe Lonsdale Let's just say there's someone in D.C. at some point is going to do something with the company and A.I. 2 times in the scene
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 17:56 Joe Lonsdale There's widespread agreement in DC on some of the challenges of China and the need to innovate more rapidly. 2 times in the scene
Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 20:54 Joe Lonsdale I think you get big enough to, you get a reputation in DC and you can like do things in DC. 2 times in the scene
Economist Vs. Billionaire: How The Myth Of Income Inequality Is Dividing America · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:09 Joe Lonsdale Senator Phil Graham served in DC for 25 years.
- ▶ 1:41 Joe Lonsdale Before we jump into that, I want to hear a little bit more about, about your background in D.C. 2 times in the scene
Harvard Economist: The Truth About Police Brutality · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 8:00 Roland Fryer We, we worked together in D.C. doing those experiments, and she was remarking, yes, they were wildly successful.
This AI Sea Drone Could Destroy A Submarine? · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 25:40 Joe Lonsdale Are there people, you know, a lot of people listen to this from DC. 2 times in the scene
A Conversation with Wall Street Legend & U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 7:12 Joe Lonsdale So after restructuring hundreds of billions of dollars of companies all over America, you went to Washington as Commerce Secretary, and you took on a similar mission in some ways. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:28 Wilbur Ross And the voters in Washington D.C. vote about 94% left-wing.
He Predicted Putin's Invasion. Now He Predicts When China Will Invade Taiwan. · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:42 Joe Lonsdale But you're, you're also, uh, becoming really influential in policy circles in DC these days.
- ▶ 50:18 Joe Lonsdale I hope you're talking to people in D.C. about this, Demetrius. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:50 Joe Lonsdale Thank you for being in DC fighting these battles. 2 times in the scene
How Founder Ken Langone Turned Home Depot Into A $400 Billion Empire · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 26:00 Ken Langone He was a partner at Williams and Connolly in Washington.
Why Reparations Won't Work & Why Standardized Tests Help Minorities -- Coleman Hughes · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 11:37 Joe Lonsdale Literally last week, I was in Washington, D.C., and we had a bunch of people speak on the right, and Trump did a video in, but then a bunch of people spoke on the left, and Schumer gave the keynote of this big event,
- ▶ 37:23 Coleman Hughes I think I'm in favor of the fact that we have an African-American history museum in Washington, DC, Smithsonian museum that has a huge exhibit on slavery in the middle passage.
A Conversation with MLK's Lawyer & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 23:58 Dr. Clarence Jones There's a speech he gave, uh, March 29th at the National, at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
Ep 80: Leonard Leo Knows How to Win and How to Save Our Country · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:26 Joe Lonsdale We really need a meeting of the minds between leaders like him from the DC world and leaders of the technology world who all want the same thing, and I'm excited for you to learn about what he's doing.
- ▶ 1:41 Joe Lonsdale Leonard, you're, uh, one of my heroes in Washington, D.C.
- ▶ 5:35 Joe Lonsdale I think you started the first Cornell Law chapter in 86 as well, but didn't become a real force in Washington until the 19 nineties, I think.
- ▶ 17:39 Joe Lonsdale As you know, I said, we are, we focus on about 20 states is how I try to get things done, because I'm not as sophisticated as you guys who know how to affect things in DC.
Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 17:24 Emil Michael Yeah, he came down to visit me while I was in D.C. because he was launching D.C. 2 times in the scene
Ep 77: Mike Solana on Exposing Corruption, Saving San Francisco, and Building a New Media Empire · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 22:33 Mike Solana So everybody who runs, who ran the social media platforms, who worked in academia, who worked in government, not just elected officials, but the people who run Washington DC, everyone who works in corporate America, they're all the same…
Ep 76: Accelerate or Die! Guillaume Verdon and the e/acc Movement · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 37:14 Guillaume Verdon But we, we are, you know, we do have to have a voice, let's say, you know, in Washington as these, um, uh, legislations are, are, are being pushed through, or there's attempts 3 times in the scene
Ep 74: Niall Ferguson & Pano Kanelos on Building the University of Austin · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 18:34 Pano Kanelos We've been in San Francisco and New York and DC.
Ep 73: Lessons from Palantir & How Candid Health Is Fixing the $280B Healthcare Billing Fiasco · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 2:10 Doug Proctor Grew up in the D.C. area.
Ep 70: Andrew McAfee on the Science Behind the World's Most Valuable Companies · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 28:27 Joe Lonsdale I mean, how can we bring the geek way to DC and to our government?
Ep 68: Are High Interest Rates & Inflation Here to Stay? How to Generate Alpha with Jacob Miller · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 8:14 Joe Lonsdale Entitlements can't really be cut very easily, I guess, especially not right now in DC. 2 times in the scene
Ep 67: Brad Gerstner on the AI Supercycle & Restoring Faith in Capitalism · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 34:05 Brad Gerstner I think we're going to see more austerity on the fiscal side out of Washington. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:21 Joe Lonsdale I wish the government could learn from them, so we'll see, we'll see if we can take that attitude to DC.
- ▶ 41:36 Brad Gerstner Yeah, there may be 2500 miles that separate Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., but we're all in this together.
Ep 66: Bob McGrew — the Superstar Palantir Alum Leading OpenAI's Transformative Research Projects · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 3:56 Bob McGrew And you and Stefan, uh, would go into DC.
Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 26:12 Marc Andreessen So, so what I find is when I talk to people in Washington about AI or tech policy, generally, there's two completely different conversations I can have with the same people, the same person on the same day. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:27 Marc Andreessen Um, and when they, being Washington or regulators or, you know, politicians or whatever, uh, decide they're interested in you, then at that point, like you, you, your options are limited. 2 times in the scene
Ep 58: Private Markets Outperform Public But They're a Mess! Eliot Hodges Is Fixing That. · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:32 Eliot Hodges Uh, so my background, I grew up in a German-American household, so I grew up in Washington, D.C.
- ▶ 4:01 Eliot Hodges And what resonated with me then was just that it sort of married the two worlds that the one world that I knew pretty well, which was Washington DC having grown up there, but it also married this world that I very so much wanted to be a…
- ▶ 12:22 Eliot Hodges Um, I mean, listen, I sort of think about as this space starts to retail, retailize and democratize, you know, there's probably going to be, you know, there's been sort of indications of more scrutiny from Washington, but I think the…
Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 25:30 Balaji Srinivasan So like DC
Ep 54: Peter Attia, Ryan Holiday & Joe Lonsdale Discuss Longevity & America's Health · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 38:44 Dr. Peter Attia So, you know, he would come back to DC from like June till September.
How to Disrupt the $38 Billion Storage Industry · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 20:57 Rahul Gandhi 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…
Mike Pompeo: Negotiating with Tyrants, Spy Balloons (or UFOs?) & Why Trump Didn't Ban TikTok · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:24 Joe Lonsdale After West Point and Harvard Law, you landed at a big law firm in DC, but then you left to start an aerospace company in Wichita.
- ▶ 2:20 Joe Lonsdale You don't get too many builders running things in DCU, especially don't get too many builders running the state department.
Andrew Yang Will Change How You Think About Politics · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 26:19 Andrew Yang Finance, consulting, law, tech, medicine, or academia in New York, San Francisco, uh, Chicago, LA, DC, Boston.
Dr. Mark Esper: Lessons from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 33:07 Dr. Mark Esper It's our political dysfunction in Washington, D.C.
Free Housing Won't Solve the Homeless Crisis. Here's What Will. · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 37:58 Joe Lonsdale And that's, that's a battle for DC, but, but the states can actually could, could say anything going on in their state, pay for performance.
How to Fix Homelessness, Expand Telehealth, and Defeat Special Interests with Jared Meyer · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 0:42 Jared Meyer Yeah, I think there's a lot that we can, uh, show on how to make a difference, even in divided times and when DC is a complete mess.
- ▶ 5:21 Jared Meyer These are community leaders who maybe just got to know everyone in their area, they care about policy, and they're giving up a lot to go to the state house.
- ▶ 10:32 Jared Meyer That's not something as me living in DC and state capitals is ever going to figure out. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:43 Joe Lonsdale DC will copy what works.
- ▶ 25:31 Jared Meyer Yeah, and it's what you hear, again, when you live in a, like, D.C.-focused world, which is what we're in right now, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:08 Joe Lonsdale Does it make sense to go to DC and work on these things? 3 times in the scene
Reviving a Culture of Innovation with Tyler Cowen · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 33:33 Joe Lonsdale I just want to get your feedback on that I've been terrified about recently is all these things coming out of DC recently with the, 2 times in the scene
Peng Shuai, Beijing Olympics & Holding China Accountable with Former UN Ambassador Kelly Craft · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 36:47 Ambassador Kelly Craft During all the negotiations with Canada, and it ended up where we had most of the, most of the negotiations were in Washington.
Joe Lonsdale and Chris Sprowls: How to Defeat Special Interests & Cronyism · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 6:34 Chris Sprowls We're not bogged down in kind of the political nonsense that bogs down, you know, Washington DC and makes it so dysfunctional.
- ▶ 31:10 Chris Sprowls I mean, I look at Washington right now and I think to myself, what do you do there?
Rep. Ro Khanna & Joe Lonsdale Debate Income Inequality and Regulating Big Tech · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 6:26 Joe Lonsdale And it's kind of put a target on the back of tech in DC, you know, for, for a lot of reasons.
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