Joe Lonsdale
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Oct 30, 2026
Matt MazzeoGUEST
I'm like, how do I square that? Like the terrain doesn't match the map.
Matt MazzeoGUEST
And then I'm hanging out with the guys at 8VC who are friends, Joe Lonsdale and Zach White.
Matt MazzeoGUEST
And they're like, what are you spending time on? I'm like, the only thing I think about is peptides.
Matt MazzeoGUEST
And they introduced me to their doctor.
Taylor LorenzGUEST
This is a massive super PAC with, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars backed by Greg Brockman, OpenAI's Chris Lehane actually came up with the idea.
Taylor LorenzGUEST
For the Super PAC, Greg Brockman of OpenAI has put a massive amount of money, as did Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir, as has Andreessen Horowitz through Mark Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the co-founders.
Taylor LorenzGUEST
So leading the future is like the main pro-AI Super PAC.
Taylor LorenzGUEST
It is a voice for the tech industry.
Dave RubinHOST
Now to me, and in my life, whenever I'm around someone that has succeeded, I try to learn something from them, emulate something from them.
Dave RubinHOST
I've mentioned the story several times when Joe Lonsdale, who I've had on the show a couple times, who's great, he's an investor, he was one of the co-founders of Palantir, And he's just a really good human being.
Dave RubinHOST
He actually invested a very, very small amount in Locals like eight years ago, a very, very small amount, not less than six figures.
Dave RubinHOST
And we had all sorts of people that were offering us money and everything else.
John CooganHOST
But one more fact.
John CooganHOST
So Joe Lonsdale, who was recently pictured, we said it was a private jet that he was calling into CNBC on.
John CooganHOST
We got a correction.
John CooganHOST
We have to issue a correction.
47 MINS LATER
Ben LiuGUEST
So Benjamin Liu, co-founder of Seattle Formation Bio.
Ben LiuGUEST
We're an AI native company building the next generation pharma company with this kind of core thesis that drug discovery is getting more and more efficient and the fundamental bottleneck of bringing new medicines to patients is the cost and time of drug development.
John CooganHOST
What's your stance on monkeys? What's your stance on monkeys? You got Joe Lonsdale.
John CooganHOST
There's going to be a big shortage.
Robert MorierHOST
Our guest today is Matt Malone, President and Head of Investment Management at Opto Investments, a private markets platform that helps registered investment advisors, family offices, and private banks build, fundraise for, and manage their own private markets programs.
Robert MorierHOST
Founded by Joe Lonsdale, the entrepreneur behind Palantir and Adapar, and backed by investors including 8VC and Michael Dow's DFO Management, Opto emerged from stealth in 2022 with a $145 million Series A and works with some of the largest independent wealth managers in the country.
Robert MorierHOST
Matt's career has been spent on nearly every side of the alternative investment table.
Robert MorierHOST
He began as an attorney and spent more than eight years as a partner at Snyder Kearney.
19 MINS LATER
Matt MaloneGUEST
And that's not a very satisfying answer if you're a fiduciary.
Matt MaloneGUEST
So when I got approached about joining Opto, It was a really compelling proposition.
Matt MaloneGUEST
First of all, you had a serial entrepreneur like Joe Lonsdale sitting behind it and saying, I want to put my name behind this business.
Matt MaloneGUEST
I believe in this.
David BennerHOST
I'm not counting on it directly after the midterms.
David BennerHOST
Trump can't find a way out of this because his Israeli masters in the Israel lobby, Miriam Adelson, Joe Lonsdale, Peter Thiel, and all these closely connected psychopaths to that lobby.
David BennerHOST
and bill ackman and larry summers and all the donors to that cause to prioritize this foreign country over others just don't want to allow it
Tucker CarlsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
well trump has said in fact i think i believe it was yesterday that if netanyahu doesn't win he has no appetite for going back into iran and that would only do so would only commit american troops to iran if netanyahu remains prime minister who knows his motive for saying that i haven't talked to him i have
John CooganHOST
That's where we're going.
Jordi HaysHOST
Let's check in with Joe Lonsdale.
Jordi HaysHOST
He was on CNBC yesterday.
John CooganHOST
Yeah, we've got to break this one down.
Jordi HaysHOST
And there's a lot to... to kind of process here.
John CooganHOST
Yes.
John CooganHOST
This is Joe Lonsdale on CNBC.
John CooganHOST
All right, pause.
John CooganHOST
That's where we're going.
Jordi HaysHOST
Let's check in with Joe Lonsdale.
Jordi HaysHOST
He was on CNBC yesterday.
John CooganHOST
Yeah, we got to break this one down.
Jordi HaysHOST
And there's a lot to kind of process here.
John CooganHOST
Yes.
John CooganHOST
This is Joe Lonsdale on CNBC.
John CooganHOST
All right, pause.
Dino MavrookasGUEST
It was a great job, but it wasn't what I was driven to go do.
Dino MavrookasGUEST
And so when I left there, I was able to partner with Joe Lonsdale and the folks at AVC.
Dino MavrookasGUEST
They're a phenomenal venture capital firm.
Dino MavrookasGUEST
But more importantly, Joe was one of the co-founders of Palantir.
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Its $40 million round was led by ABC.
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the venture firm Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded Palantir with Peter Thiel.
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Lonsdale was a guest on Sean Ryan's show on May 7, 2026, less than three months before I taped.
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Palantir signed a strategic partnership with Israel's Ministry of Defense in 2024.
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