$PLTR cofounder @JTLonsdale on Europe’s lack of tech companies🔮
05:15 “it’s very easy to break the innovation economy. When I was at PayPal as a kid, there were multiple times when Spitzer here in NY almost took it out. He came very close to taking it out… if he had succeeded, we would not have Tesla, we would not have LinkedIn, we would not have YouTube, we would not have SpaceX…”
“That’s what happened in the EU. In the EU, the regulators are just a little more powerful, just a little more obnoxious, and all the sudden, there’s dozens of companies that would’ve existed that don’t.”
Sep 19, 2024 · 1:40 PM UTC
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Full new clip of $PLTR cofounder @JTLonsdale talking about arrests over memes, attacks on PayPal when he was an intern, @elonmusk and 𝕏, why there are no tech companies in Europe, and more.
“The birthplace of liberty in the West— you can now go to jail for tweeting against the left”
$PLTR cofounder @JTLonsdale on if Palantir was behind the pager attacks against Hezbollah 📟 🔮‼️
“If it was we wouldn’t be able to tell you” 😎
A clip from one of the best recent interviews of $PLTR cofounder @JTLonsdale 🔮
00:04 “you don’t learn how to build Palantir by going to work at Google”
02:39 “Thank goodness there’s people like Alex Karp, my Stanford roommate and cofounder Stephen Cohen, people like our CTO @ssankar…
05:24 Joe talks about hosting a dinner with $TSLA CEO @elonmusk and $META CEO Mark Zuckerberg 10 years ago, and talking about AI.
“Mark was on the much more optimistic side and Elon was on the, ‘wow this could destroy the world’ side of things.”
05:45 “Does AI become the messiah?”
“That’s a fun debate to have over a few drinks and cigars”
06:25 “Palantir is a great way to play AI and productivity. It’s helping a ton of companies doing things they couldn’t do otherwise. They come in and in one week, do things the company couldn’t do in a year with their data and AI.
07:50 Joe on working at PayPal with Elon, @peterthiel @DavidSacks @mlevchin @reidhoffman.
“I wrote about my lessons from Peter Thiel online”
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09:20 “[Elon] is the only friend I have who is bolder than me in basically everything, which is actually somewhat humbling.
12:20 Josh asked what Joe looks for when hiring someone:
“Are you looking for experience, background, university pedigree?”
Joe when he hears “university pedigree”: 😏
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