American - Businessman | September 12, 1982 -
Private equity firms working closely with venture capitalists and technologists may be able to unlock assets that others have not leveraged and build technology cultures to iterate on solutions that make these assets more productive.
Joe Lonsdale
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I was really lucky about two things about my life as a kid: I had awesome parents, and I had awesome peers.
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One of my biggest intellectual influences in my life was Alex Karp of Palantir.
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There are people who are better managers than I am. I aspire to be a really good manager, but it's not my natural personality to do the same thing for 14 hours a day. I have a lot of different interests. I really like product and strategy and business strategy, and I think I'm not bad at it.
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For me, seed investing isn't just a good return area but a big part of how we network in Silicon Valley. A lot of our best deals have come from being active in the seed stage.
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Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of these have a huge impact on everything else.
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I believe we live in a positive sum world and wealth isn't just taken or moved around; it's mostly created.
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If our society was a lot wealthier, I think we'd also probably have better education systems - this is pretty intuitive, I think, to make as a claim.
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The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems.
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I think I was really lucky to work as a little kid at PayPal, grew up in the Valley as a coder.
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Keeping government running really well, to me, is incredibly important.
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David and Ellen Siminoff are legends in Silicon Valley - they are two of the most influential mentors to top executives and leaders behind the scenes, with long track records of success.
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