Joe Lonsdale
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Joe Lonsdale qualifies as a Visionary by planting flags in contested territory before institutions are ready to follow. Co-founding Palantir was a bet that governments and militaries across forty-plus countries would eventually accept data-driven decision infrastructure. At 8VC he applies the same logic to defense procurement dysfunction and services productivity, presenting multi-trillion-dollar transformations not as aspirations but as theses already in motion.
“We started the company to kill the bad guys. We ended up helping run the targeting systems in forty-plus countries and wiping out over ten thousand terrorists, including a lot of the most important ones.”
“You have China building really new advanced defense things. You have us spending lots of money very wastefully without top talent. We said, wow, we need to get back in and fix this.”
“There's about five trillion dollars of wages in the US services sector. Over two trillion of those are in areas where we've already shown you can double the productivity, in some cases triple the cash flow.”
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