Joe Lonsdale Quotes
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Entrepreneurship is, in large part, about building something from nothing, which means creating a cause.
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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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Hard work enables us to improve ourselves and the world around us, to combat injustice, reduce suffering, and increase human freedom.
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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 Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.
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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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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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Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.
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In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'
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It always struck me as pretty cool that people who changed the world often knew each other. After reading them separately, hearing that David Hume and Adam Smith were friends made sense.
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Funding has not kept pace with demand for expanded lanes and well-maintained roadways.
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Great leaders inspire incredible loyalty in their followers and subordinates.
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A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility - what we might call a culture of virtue.
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Palantir owes much of its success to the amazing talent of the first 30-40 technologists who joined the company, as well as to the internal leadership that helped motivate this core group to achieve its ambitious goals and to continue to attract extraordinary people.
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As we progress as a species, we will unlock new means for enhancing our lives at every turn - and our conceptions of wealth and poverty will evolve in tandem.
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Applying smarter IT to genomic data may offer the potential to cure many types of cancer and other diseases.
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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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In their infancy, startups need geniuses who fit their current tight-knit culture and will iterate quickly as they push towards an ambitious vision - and they need a scaffolding of advisors, strategists, early users, and product-thinkers around these savants to guide them.
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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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Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.
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One of my biggest intellectual influences in my life was Alex Karp of Palantir.
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Private equity investors are an integral part of the economy and should be celebrated for making our country wealthier.
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We created Addepar because we saw a place where a multi-billion dollar global platform clearly should exist - but did not yet - to fix many of the challenges that exist in the finance industry.
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A common mistake among new entrepreneurs who have raised large rounds is that they have essentially infinite resources.