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Here's my conversation with @JTLonsdale We explore: - immigrant roots, philosophy, and warfare - chess & investing billions with Peter Thiel - founding stories behind Palantir and 8VC Plus, US & Japanese bond markets, what drives him, the University of Austin, and much more. YouTube link below and I hope you enjoy this as much as I did! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:24 Poor Irish Immigrants and Holocaust Survivors 6:44 A 20-Year Chess Dynasty 9:37 Why Great Men Quit Chess 13:15 Stanford Nerds, Protests & Palantir Recruiting 14:25 Rejected from PayPal and Arguing with Max Levchin 23:23 Investing Billions With Peter Thiel 30:25 A Year of Loss and Failure 33:54 The Painful Beginnings of Palantir 39:15 The Palantir CIA Conspiracy Theory 41:18 Losing a $300M Military Contest 46:44 Raising the Largest VC Fund Since 2000 55:57 Most People are Cowards

Agent payments will soon overtake human payments on the internet. The Machine Payments Protocol (@mpp) is a new open standard co-authored by @stripe and @tempo. It’s designed to be extensible and payment-method agnostic, already supporting stablecoins, cards, and more.

Most people know @Reddit as the $27 billion dollar company. Almost nobody knows about Mark White In 2004, @alexisohanian was at an entrepreneurship conference in Singapore when he pitched his UVA Commerce professor an idea over drinks. White had seen hundreds of student pitches. He told Ohanian it was one of the best he'd ever heard. Ohanian emailed his roommate Steve Huffman that night: drop everything, we need to do this. Huffman had been planning grad school. Ohanian had been planning law school. Neither of them went. That idea became Reddit. Mark White is my professor today. I sit in class today where every lecture my mind wanders to that night in Singapore... a professor who could have nodded politely and moved on, but instead told Ohanian to go all in. Who wanted to join the board. Who already knew people to call for capital, that's not just encouragement, that's belief. He is the best professor I've ever had and honestly, after seeing this email, it makes complete sense. The same energy he brings to the classroom is exactly what Ohanian needed in that bar in Singapore.

Most people know @Reddit as the $27 billion dollar company. Almost nobody knows about Mark White In 2004, @alexisohanian was at an entrepreneurship conference in Singapore when he pitched his UVA Commerce professor an idea over drinks. White had seen hundreds of student pitches. He told Ohanian it was one of the best he'd ever heard. Ohanian emailed his roommate Steve Huffman that night: drop everything, we need to do this. Huffman had been planning grad school. Ohanian had been planning law school. Neither of them went. That idea became Reddit. Mark White is my professor today. I sit in class today where every lecture my mind wanders to that night in Singapore... a professor who could have nodded politely and moved on, but instead told Ohanian to go all in. Who wanted to join the board. Who already knew people to call for capital, that's not just encouragement, that's belief. He is the best professor I've ever had and honestly, after seeing this email, it makes complete sense. The same energy he brings to the classroom is exactly what Ohanian needed in that bar in Singapore.