Joe Lonsdale
General Partner at 8VC
United States
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2015 - Current
8VC transform the technology infrastructure behind many industries.
Founder and Chairman
2009
Addepar is a software and data platform for even the most complex investment portfolios.
Raised $531,362,336.00 from Vika Ventures, Cota Capital and D1 Capital Partners.
Founder
2004
Palantir Technologies is a software company that develops data analytics and data integration software solutions.
Raised $3,027,970,015.00 from ARK Investment Management and ARK Investment Management.
Chairman of the Board
2008 - 2022
Jake and his team are building a great brand and a great company that understands how to use marketing and technology to get people passionate about important causes, and that will donate millions to charity. I'm proud to help.
ONEHOPE is a social enterprise that sells wine and other products and services to raise awareness and funding for charitable organizations.
Raised $57,388,290.00 from Wesley Chan, PLG Ventures, Matt Cheng, A.M. Management & Consulting (AMMC), WestRiver Group, Vectr and Nima Capital.
Board Member
2009 - 2016
Strive is focusing on one of the highest ROI areas of education. It is playing a critical role in creating opportunity for more Americans by freeing smart kids from being trapped in a culture of failure, and bringing back role models into communities that need them. I'm proud of the work done by this organization and while I was more involved early I am still supportive of the mission.
Founder and Partner
2011 - 2015
Formation 8, a California-based technology investment firm, focuses on seed, early, and later stage venture investments.
Board Member
2008 - 2011
Helped Patri Friedman and company think about how governments can be challenged to innovate and how groups might change the world by building a new frontier for humankind. I think the effort led to some worthwhile intellectual conversations and started to popularize the idea that just as old processes and entities in other industries need to be reviewed, so might we improve government with modern innovation (with proper respect for the insights of great government builders of the past, of course, such as America's founding fathers).
Principal
2003 - 2009
Helped to build and run Peter Thiel's highly-successful fund from a start-up into a multi-billion dollar behemoth. Managed an engineering and research team that researched and quantified the international economic picture as reflected in the interactions of fixed income, equity, commodity, and currency markets. We studied various things like the effects of wealth disparities, "bubbles" and feedback mechanisms, liquidity flows, and government interest rate and credit action. Played a key role in general management and in determining the fund's trading strategies. Clarium has some of the top intellects in the world.
Intern, Finance
2002 - 2002
Learned about several aspects of PayPal's online financial transaction business before merger with eBay. Learned Bloomberg, met with engineering employees working on anti-fraud technologies, and became familiar with corporate financial operations and software.
Education
BS
2000 - 2003