Joe Lonsdale Quotes

Joe Lonsdale

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 12, 1982

When you solve big, hard problems, problems that fundamentally improve how an industry works, financial returns follow, giving you resources to do more of the same.

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Not everybody has to work on the big problems, but if nobody does, they don't get solved.

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Our best and brightest must conceive of themselves as stewards of our society and confront the critical challenges of our time. It's the best bet for our society, for entrepreneurs, and for the investors who believe in them.

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The only way to create prosperity is to do more with less. In economic terms, an increase in productivity is an increase in the amount or quality of output generated for each unit of input. Jobs do not make society wealthier - productivity does.

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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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Savvy, competitive investors able to build, buy, and fix companies will continue to stimulate growth by allowing us to do more with less - the only way to create prosperity.

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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.

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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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Our family is very, very competitive. But it's a fun and inspiring sort of competitive. It makes you proud of what you do and makes you want to work hard and do all your homework so you can win.

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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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Keeping government running really well, to me, is incredibly important.

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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.

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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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