
#421 Joe Lonsdale - Palantir Co-Founder Reveals What's Destroying America
About this episode
Zuby is joined by American entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of Palantir, Joe Lonsdale. Joe shares his journey from a kid in Silicon Valley to building one of the most consequential technology companies of the 21st century. He explains how he’s now using his platform and capital to defend Western civilisation.
The conversation covers the three pillars of the Enlightenment, how universities have been ideologically captured, the founding of the University of Austin, the trillion-dollar grift machine funding the far left, and why Joe remains incredibly optimistic about America’s future.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(05:55) Starting his first company
(08:00) Building Palantir from scratch
(11:22) Defending Western civilisation
(15:51) What worries him most as a father
(19:21) Why he became so passionate about America
(20:27) Meeting his wife & having six kids
(28:00) Universities have been captured
(31:05) Founding the University of Austin
(32:25) The West is a victim of its own success
(34:02) The cycle of civilisational decay
(35:00) The DC swamp exposed
(37:20) Special interests & crony capitalism
(40:11) The two-party system & the Fed
(45:40) The far left's trillion-dollar grift machine
(46:59) What Joe disagrees with on the right
(48:59) Why he's optimistic about America
(50:44) Outro
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