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Lonsdale: Recessions are necessary to prune unproductive parts of the economy
“Recessions are actually good to have every once in a while. They clean out a lot of nonsense. You know, what happens is there's a lot of resources being used for things that are not productive in the economy, and you need a sensor mechanism. You need certain t…”
Lonsdale: Smart people in science and engineering instinctively ask why ideas fail
“I think most people who had to consider smart people, you know, that I met at university or in science and engineering, I think their first question is usually why it won't work.”
Lonsdale: Businesses reward lean efficiency while government incentivizes headcount growth
“There's, it's even worse than that too, because your reputation is like how many people who work for you. So they're all trying to justify, like in my companies, like if it's run well, you're trying to justify how to do something with less expense and fewer re…”
Lonsdale: Capping insurer margins incentivizes higher healthcare costs
“And it turns out that we've capped the margins for healthcare. It sounds good. You don't want the insurance companies making too much money. But because we've capped the margins, and because they make 20%, their incentive is now to make healthcare as expensive…”
Lonsdale: Every entrepreneur needs a written 10-page deck
“This is why building a deck is really good for an entrepreneur, even if it's a small business, is you want to put together, here's 10 pages on who I am, what I'm doing, what the goals are, why it's going to be successful. And I think a lot of entrepreneurs say…”
Lonsdale: Powerful Tech Requires Built-In Civil Liberties Protections
“But the whole point is you have to build in all these civil liberties frameworks, and you have to watch it carefully, because when you create power, it can be captured and used for evil.”
Lonsdale: Early elite talent was essential to Palantir's recruiting flywheel
“The reason we were able to recruit a lot of the best people is we started with a bunch of the best people. So it's very chicken and egg. I, you know, from the chess world, from the math world, from Stanford computer science, from my friends who, you know, were…”