American - Businessman | September 12, 1982 -
Engineering talent is the most precious resource for any technology company - Palantir and Addepar are successful first and foremost because of their top tech cultures, and the same is true for our best portfolio companies at 8VC.
Joe Lonsdale
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Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy.
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Palantir is the new wave of companies solving big problems for big industries.
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I work 110-hour weeks.
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I'm always investing and building things at the same time.
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There will be trillions of dollars under Addepar. You will have tons of money and information flowing through it.
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If you can make finance more functional, make it a tiny percent better, you create a great deal of resources, which you can use for other things like education and healthcare.
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I think that the culture at Stanford really shapes how you view the world, and you get a lot more out of an entrepreneurial mindset.
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Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun.
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A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is 'broken' in the world.
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In a well-run tech company, small, elite groups who have ownership in the company are given the freedom to define and achieve their tasks in line with a broader mission that they have internalized as their own.
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We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.
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