Joe Lonsdale
8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 30, 2019 by Joe Lonsdale · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Sep 30, 2019 bearish
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Sep 30, 2019 positive
Sep 30, 2019 negative
A massive growth fund outbid 8VC by 60% on a Series B
“I was just outbid last month for something I love by like 60% from a firm. I won't mention the name, but it's a firm that writes regularly the 102 hundred million dollar checks. They decided to come down and write a thirty million dollar check.”
Sep 30, 2019 positive
Formation 8 launched with a $50M anchor check from the LG family
“One of my unfair advantages in starting Formation Eight was that my early partner, his family built LG in Korea. His father gave us fifty million dollars as an anchor. I was able to raise with my network most of the remaining four hundred forty million dollars…”
Sep 30, 2019 negative
Lonsdale calls the Silicon Valley culture of celebrating failure 'really disgusting'
“I think the celebration of failure to me is really disgusting. It's okay to fail. If you try really, really hard, you give it your all. It's not okay to feel because you got distracted and you decided not to do it anymore.”
Sep 30, 2019 neutral
Max Levchin rejected Lonsdale from PayPal before Peter Thiel hired him
“So I actually got turned down the very first time I applied there as a programmer when I was quite young, Max Loachin. Who's now a friend. I mean, do stuff on the whiteboard and we debated things and I never got an offer from that, but then Peter brought me ba…”