Why this Palantir cofounder left California for Texas | Joe Lonsdale | The Reason Interview

Serial entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale, who founded the Cicero Institute to fix government and University of Austin to fix higher education, wanted space to flourish in Texas.
0:00- What is 8VC?
1:56- Why did Lonsdale move to Texas?
6:00- Why are rich Americans leaving the country?
7:46- The future of artificial intelligence
13:10- What is Palantir?
18:29- Joe Lonsdale's perspective on Julian Assange
22:06- How can Palantir detect fraud?
24:35- What is wrong about a Trump v. Biden rematch?
27:30- What is the Cicero Institute?
32:54- Should we create nonprofit prisons?
36:06- Are too many things crimes?
38:10- The future of higher education
42:30- Why we should be optimistic
47:41- Ayn Rand's influence on Lonsdale
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Joe Lonsdale is a co-founder of the data analytics firm Palantir; OpenGov, which provides cloud software services for governments; and the University of Austin, which seeks to reform higher education. He's the managing partner of 8VC, a tech and life sciences venture capital fund, and is chairman of the board of the Cicero Institute, a nonprofit working to "restore liberty, accountability, and innovation in American governance."
Reason's Nick Gillespie asked Lonsdale why he relocated to Texas from California, how to curb government overreach while providing essential services, his goals for his podcast American Optimist, and his 2020 article, "Libertarianism is Dysfunctional, but Liberty is Great."

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  • @matt96920
    @matt969202 ай бұрын

    Really enjoyed this Lonsdale interview. He doesn't seem as nervous as he usually does -- probably bc it's Gillespie interviewing him. Dude is always preternaturally calm. Like a human Ambien

  • @davidjooste5788
    @davidjooste57882 ай бұрын

    It's great to hear voices like this. Sane steady smart.

  • @ham9187
    @ham91872 ай бұрын

    “Friends left for Switzerland or Singapore” this makes sense, they are the two countries which are still sane.

  • @MichaelWilliamsWMA
    @MichaelWilliamsWMA2 ай бұрын

    @51:36 pooping street, as the homeless educator since 2010. The reason homeless poop in streets is because there are no public or business restrooms available to them. In NYC many business, like some Starbucks have no restrooms for their customers.

  • @FatherOBlivion

    @FatherOBlivion

    2 ай бұрын

    Kinda missing the point.

  • @TugHillGuy
    @TugHillGuy2 ай бұрын

    Good interview. I get what he said about libertarians. Most are good at discussing their principles and even the kind of society they would like to live in, but most don't actually effectuate much change in order to bring about a more libertarian society (myself included).

  • @jamesdellaneve9005
    @jamesdellaneve90052 ай бұрын

    I live in the fecal state (Cali). Lot’s of people fleeing. Not me. I live in a nice area.

  • @Marthastewart209.
    @Marthastewart209.2 ай бұрын

    Holy timestamps batman! Glad I see them on your long form podcast. Super helpful

  • @cynthiaguest4509
    @cynthiaguest45092 ай бұрын

    Congress should spend a year getting rid of laws

  • @Russell.Jolly.2023
    @Russell.Jolly.20232 ай бұрын

    Smart guy. He gives hope that all is not lost.

  • @user-sd7et3wx1g
    @user-sd7et3wx1g2 ай бұрын

    Great guys!!

  • @andersjohnson9565
    @andersjohnson95652 ай бұрын

    49:48 “My experience with libertarians [...] is it was kind of like you sit on the couch, and you yell at the TV and tell the government to stop doing things, and you maybe put some money to try to stop the government from doing things, and then the government ends up eventually doing it anyway, and it ends up being even more dysfunctional, and it keeps growing, and you're kind of angry.”

  • @Eliteownage
    @Eliteownage2 ай бұрын

    much love all

  • @rolandvoss3600
    @rolandvoss36002 ай бұрын

    Great conversation 👍

  • @user-sd7et3wx1g
    @user-sd7et3wx1g2 ай бұрын

    Love the interview!

  • @AG-hl1ni
    @AG-hl1ni2 ай бұрын

    Palantir a generational company.

  • @eugeniocg3079
    @eugeniocg30792 ай бұрын

    lonsdale is the man

  • @barfo281
    @barfo2812 ай бұрын

    But...Texas is not as free as Texans like to pretend.

  • @thegeneral333
    @thegeneral3332 ай бұрын

    Palantir is the definition of a government backed company. Read Whitney Webb.

  • @rdf256

    @rdf256

    2 ай бұрын

    People who are worried about Palantir aren't worried enough about what the govt does *without* Palantir: unsiloed databases, lack of accountability for data access, and so on.

  • @laurenglass4514
    @laurenglass45142 ай бұрын

    Austin is a sanctuary city and they got rid of a lot of their police officers. It’s turned into a crime ridden mess.

  • @damonkatos4271
    @damonkatos42713 күн бұрын

    Can you say tax abatement?

  • @TimedNonTides
    @TimedNonTides2 ай бұрын

    Should have asked him whether Palantir offerring more than 100 jobs to (woke) jews only, was ethical or not...

  • @cluistube
    @cluistube2 ай бұрын

    Adderal: It gets shit done.

  • @MichaelWilliamsWMA
    @MichaelWilliamsWMA2 ай бұрын

    Nick Gillespie bias is very evident @24:08 he attributed his senior moment to Trump and not Biden? Is he that dense?

  • @Nemerson74

    @Nemerson74

    2 ай бұрын

    Your bias is showing when you look for problems that dont exist, because Nick has always disliked both.

  • @janblackman6204
    @janblackman62042 ай бұрын

    It sucks to get a computer when you have a problem with something. This guy is spewing hot air