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Joe Lonsdale

Organizations

8VCmanaging partner, co-founder, founder

Interviews

Joe Lonsdale: low-end SaaS without moats is in trouble, but AI-forward incumbents with strong tech cultures will thrive

Joe Lonsdale on AI talent wars, incubating in Texas, and why the real economy is the most underrated opportunity

Mentions

Erebor bank wins fastest conditional charter approval in 25 years, raises $275M

Erebor: Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey, and Joe Lonsdale launch crypto-friendly bank to replace SVB

Epirus raises $250M to scale directed-energy counter-drone system Leonidas

Elon Musk's $97.4B unsolicited bid for OpenAI's nonprofit complicates for-profit conversion

A16z and OpenAI's Greg Brockman back $100M 'Leading the Future' pro-AI super PAC

Former Palantir CFO Colin Anderson on scaling finance, defense tech, and the forward deployed model

HydraHost raises $8M at a $500M SAFE cap to bring GPU rental software to data centers

OpenGov CEO Zach Bookman: government software is a $1.8B exit business built on 13 years of painful mistakes

Broken defense procurement is holding back American military readiness — and Silicon Valley wants to fix it