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

2024/4/26

My First Million

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

My First Million

What is the 'One Reason' strategy?

What did Joe learn about Global Macro Finance from Peter Thiel?

How does Joe take multi-million dollar bets at 4:30am?

Why hire for raw IQ over expertise?

How does Joe nurture employees into unicorn founders?

What hard problems does Addepar solve?

What does it mean to always 'Be on'?

How does Joe spot opportunities for new businesses?

How did Epirus land a military defense contract?

Getting hits in hard domains: What's the strategy?

Business Idea: AI-powered Estate Planning

Business Idea: Business Process Outsourcing for local government

Big swings vs. base hits: What's the difference?

Idea vs. execution: Which is more important?

Focus vs. diversity of thought/attention: What's the balance?

What insights did Joe gain from Elon’s inner circle?

What are Joe Lonsdale’s unfair advantages?

How to invest your time to make your first $1M?

What was Joe's experience working on an A+ problem as a PayPal intern?

How to be within 2 standard deviations of top talent?

What were the early days like at Palantir?

How does Joe build a top engineering culture?

How did Joe borrow trust as a 21-year-old defense contractor?

What was Peter Thiel’s biggest contrarian bet?

Shownotes Transcript

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My First Million

What is the 'One Reason' strategy?

What did Joe learn about Global Macro Finance from Peter Thiel?

How does Joe take multi-million dollar bets at 4:30am?

Why hire for raw IQ over expertise?

How does Joe nurture employees into unicorn founders?

What hard problems does Addepar solve?

What does it mean to always 'Be on'?

How does Joe spot opportunities for new businesses?

How did Epirus land a military defense contract?

Getting hits in hard domains: What's the strategy?

Business Idea: AI-powered Estate Planning

Business Idea: Business Process Outsourcing for local government

Big swings vs. base hits: What's the difference?

Idea vs. execution: Which is more important?

Focus vs. diversity of thought/attention: What's the balance?

What insights did Joe gain from Elon’s inner circle?

What are Joe Lonsdale’s unfair advantages?

How to invest your time to make your first $1M?

What was Joe's experience working on an A+ problem as a PayPal intern?

How to be within 2 standard deviations of top talent?

What were the early days like at Palantir?

How does Joe build a top engineering culture?

How did Joe borrow trust as a 21-year-old defense contractor?

What was Peter Thiel’s biggest contrarian bet?

Shownotes Transcript

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