What Billionaire Entrepreneurs Know That You Don’t

Joe Lonsdale March 27, 2025
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The world is broken. Let's fix it. Learn from the world's leading innovators and investors who are solving our nation's most pressing challenges -- and doing it in a way that will lift everyone up. Joe Lonsdale is an American entrepreneur, investor & philanthropist. He has been a part of founding more than a dozen mission-driven companies, including Palantir, Addepar, OpenGov, Epirus, and 8VC.

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What do Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and Charles Koch have in common? Charles Koch is the Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries and known for developing and applying principled frameworks that grew a small engineering firm into one of the largest private companies in the world. Watch the full episode with Charles Koch: https://youtu.be/uCFcz8SESdQ?si=7TMdUgIjwmSZIHvh Peter Thiel is a billionaire investor and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, renowned for his contrarian thinking and deep influence on Silicon Valley. Elon Musk is the visionary founder of Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, and Neuralink, whose relentless first-principles approach has reshaped industries from energy to aerospace. Alex Karp is the CEO and co-founder of Palantir Technologies, a +$200 billion company focused on solving complex data problems for governments and large institutions. Watch the full episode with Alex Karp: https://youtu.be/TEfTVozgiNs?si=V7DtpmdLb5UfIu57 Joe Lonsdale is an American entrepreneur, investor & philanthropist. He has been a part of founding more than a dozen mission-driven companies, including Palantir, Addepar, OpenGov, Affinity, Epirus, Resilience Bio, and 8VC. Follow Joe on Twitter: https://x.com/jtlonsdale You can find his writings here: https://blog.joelonsdale.com/ *Timestamps* 00:00 Intro 00:32 Charles Koch 02:49 Peter Thiel 05:43 Elon Musk 08:24 Alex Karp

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