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Podcast: Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry
Episode: Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC, First Meeting (First Meeting, EP.09)
Description: Joe Lonsdale is a founding partner at 8VC, a leading venture capital firm that partners with top founders and entrepreneurs to build lasting technology platforms. He began working at Peter Thiel's PayPal while Joe was an undergraduate at Stanford, and upon graduation became an early executive at Thiel's Clarium Capital, which became a multi-billion dollar global macro hedge fund. From within Clarium, Joe went on to become a co-founder of Palantir, and later founded Addepar and OpenGov. After operating this series of successful start-ups, he turned to early stage venture investing for himself and then as a f...