Joe Lonsdale, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Sean. Glad to be here.

Man, I am super excited to talk to you.

I've been following what you've been doing and a lot of your different companies for a while now.

And I know you're a busy guy, and I just want to say it's an honor to have you here.

You're involved in so much with technology, and also I love what you're doing with University of Austin.

I love to hit on that, but I just, I really appreciate you coming, and I've been looking forward to dive it into this for a long time.

I'm excited to be here. It's an honor to be on the show.

Thank you. Thank you.

But everybody starts off with an introduction, and we could go on for probably an hour here,

but I tried to summarize it up here.

Joe Lonsdale, you're a real titan of industry and innovation, a man whose journey from Silicon Valley to the halls of policymaking reads like a modern day epic.

You're a Stanford-educated visionary who co-founded Palantir Technologies, a company that's become synonymous with big data and analytics, helping governments and businesses worldwide to make smarter, more informed decisions.

After Palantir, you ventured into the world of finance and founded Adipar, revolutionizing how

wealth management works, making it transparent and data-driven. Of the nine U.S. defense unicorns, billion-dollar companies, you founded three and were one of the earliest investors in another three.

You're deeply invested in education reform. You co-founded Cicero, an organization dedicated to advancing educational opportunities and policy to transform lives and societies.

Your influence extends into policy with your involvement in 8VC, a venture capital firm

that doesn't just fund startups. It pushes for policies that encourage innovation.

You've been an advisor deleting political figures advocating for a future where technology and policy work hand in hand to solve our biggest challenges.

You shape the ideas of the future with your op-eds and articles that often delve into intersection of tech, policy, and culture.

You're a father of five kids.

You just had your first son and you've been married for eight years.

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