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Joe Lonsdale

@JTLonsdale

I'm an entrepreneur, investor, & philanthropist. I founded @PalantirTech @Addepar @UAustinOrg @8VC & other mission-driven orgs. Bold policy @InstituteCicero

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I should have added a second, equally-important punchline: every donor who cares about astounding hypocrisy displayed at places like Columbia, Harvard, Penn, etc. should immediately pull their donations from these schools and allocate them to schools that get these issues right:…

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'The problem right now is that we're oftentimes spending a million or three million dollars... to stop something that's very cheap, and you can't do that at scale.'

Just now: Joe Lonsdale at today's Hill & Valley Forum on the challenges of asymmetric warfare & the importance of…

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Scalable architectures are uncommon.

Increasing data & compute advances AI, but we shouldn't neglect architecture innovation. Small teams with novel approaches can make outsized progress (thanks to scaling laws!)

New essay: 8vc.com/resources/scal…

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They claim we need more tax dollars, but our government is spending so recklessly that it won’t even turn off the funding that helped cause Covid-19.

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Blend announces Strategic Partnership with Haveli, including $150M investment

Don’t bet against Brian Sheth and his new firm, and don’t bet against Nima! Bullish BLND / still proud first investor ;).

businesswire.com/news/home/2024…

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Joe Lonsdale (Joe Lonsdale ) has created more billion dollar companies than anyone else in the U.S.

Today, a third of his money is going towards building *new* companies.

How does he figure out what to build? He looks for 'conceptual gaps' in the world.

And he gave me a…

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When I was about ten years old, MC Hammer lived behind us in our nice middle class Fremont, CA neighborhood, and gave out giant candy bars at Halloween - as he was becoming famous.

One of the coolest guys around. Love that he’s e/acc!

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Joe Lonsdale(@JTLonsdale) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Government has very little to do with “crushing” any form of racism / anti-Semitism; most top-down efforts are likely to backfire.

What it could do is to stop funding anti-Semites at NGOs and Universities, but of course that would require courage.

Instead it hires more cronies.

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🤡 'Palestinian make-up artist is creating horrific looking injuries on actors'

This is NOT satire! They are documenting a Pallywood make-up artist as if its an actual career!

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Mike Next terms course syllabus is lit 🔥

'Understanding Islamic Rope-Based Artistic Expression and the Intersectionality of the Community'

@Doranimated Next terms course syllabus is lit 🔥 'Understanding Islamic Rope-Based Artistic Expression and the Intersectionality of the #LGBTQ Community'
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Well done, men.

We need to bring back bold fraternities, centered around the pro-civilization masculine values they were founded upon in the 19th century.

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This is a well-meaning but terrible idea. Don’t add even more bureaucrats - fire the useless existing ones who are helping to cause the issue in the first place.

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