From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview

Synopsis

Joe Lonsdale (8VC, co-founder of Palantir/Addepar/Epirus) on his PayPal-intern origins, getting close to global macro under Thiel, taking 4:30am bets, hiring raw IQ, building engineering culture at Palantir, Anduril's defence play, and two named business ideas: AI-powered estate planning and BPO for local government.

Ideas in this episode

• AI-powered estate planning service

  MFM episode where Joe Lonsdale names AI-powered estate planning as a startup idea, framing it alongside BPO for local government as part of his big-swing brainstorm.

• BPO for local government

  MFM episode where Joe Lonsdale names BPO for local government as a startup idea alongside AI estate planning, pitched as a big-swing opportunity.