Joe Lonsdale: The unicorn whisperer
Unfiltered
English - February 06, 2020 19:10 - 1 hour - 108 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEntrepreneurship Business Education Self-Improvement health business wellness productivity startups finance leadership marketing interview entrepreneur Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, Joe Lonsdale is a General Partner at 8VC, Founder & Chairman of Addepar and Founder of Palantir Technologies.
An early institutional investor in numerous companies including Wish, Oculus, Oscar, Guardant Health and Blend, Joe was the youngest-ever member of the ‘Midas List’ when he debuted in 2016.
In 2004 he co-founded multi-billion dollar big data analytics startup Palantir, where he initially served as co-head of product. Palantir’s software is focused on analyzing, integrating and visualizing data, specifically in the intelligence and financial services sectors. In 2015, Palantir was valued at roughly $20 billion.
In 2009, he co-founded wealth management technology platform Addepar, which now manages over $1 trillion of wealth, and in 2012 founded OpenGov, which modernizes various processes for over 2,000 municipalities and state agencies.
In 2015, he co-founded VC firm 8VC, the successor to a previous fund, Formation 8 - which was one of the top performing funds in Silicon Valley. 8VC today manages more than $2.7 billion in assets.
Prior to this, Joe was an early executive at Peter Thiel’s Clarium Capital, which he helped grow into a large global macro hedge fund.
Joe received a BS in Computer Science from Stanford in 2003.
Check out Joe's interview on Unfiltered.tv:
https://unfiltered.tv/#/interview-public/151bf1540a3b44d2b6d6f8300fb3633d