Joe Lonsdale Quotes


We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.


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Lonsdale, Joe. "Joe Lonsdale." Medium, medium.com/@joelonsdale.

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A startlingly bad prediction by a Nobel-prize winning economist particularly given it was stated in 1998 rather than a much earlier date when the potential of the Internet wasn’t already apparent. Ironically, the quote is from a Red Herring article he wrote titled “Why Most Economists’ Predictions Are Wrong” in which he asserts that most economists predictions are wrong because they overestimate the impact of future technologies. See related quotes for additional equally erroneous Krugman predictions.


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  • Born: September 12, 1982
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Partner At 8VC, Chairman Addepar

Joseph Todd Lonsdale V is an American entrepreneur and technology investor. He is a founder of 8VC, a technology investment firm, and a co-founder of Palantir Technologies, Addepar, and OpenGov, and was an early investor in a number of companies, including the e-commerce platform Wish.