Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist

Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist

Hosted by Joe Lonsdale · Joe Lonsdale

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67Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored
169
Episodes
94
Transcribed
297
Ratings
Weekly
Cadence
2021
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About Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist

American Optimist, hosted by Joe Lonsdale: entrepreneur, investor, and founder of four multi-billion dollar companies and other mission-driven organizations. American Optimist is an alternative to the fear, cynicism, and zero-sum thinking in mainstream media. Learn from the innovators and leaders who are solving our nation’s most pressing challenges, and doing it in a way that will lift everyone up. Hope should dominate our discourse, and American Optimist will show you why. blog.joelonsdale.com (https://blog.joelonsdale.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher
Joe Lonsdale
Category
business · technology
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
29 Jun 2021
Latest episode
3 Nov 2026
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94 of 169 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Ep 168: Sky Harbour CEO Tal Keinan on Why America Stopped Building Airports, the AI Wealth Wave & Private Jet Boom

  2. 26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Ep 167: The Company That Evaluates the AI Labs — Vals AI CEO Rayan Krishnan on Measuring Frontier Models & the Race to Recursive Self-Improvement

  3. 15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Ep 166: Eric Glyman on Ramp's Meteoric Growth, Selling Outcomes vs Products, and the Future of White-Collar Work

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Ep 168: Sky Harbour CEO Tal Keinan on Why America Stopped Building Airports, the AI Wealth Wave & Private Jet Boom

Published 3 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's the same way with the highways. We built extra highways. In some ways, what China does today in a related way, where you guess the infrastructure you're going to need and build it. I'm not familiar enough with what happened, but I wonder if anyone actually guessed that or just said, let's build. […]

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  • Tal Keinan
  • Rayan Krishnan
  • Vivek Gopalan
  • Eric Glyman
  • Scott Kupor

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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.6 / 5
172 ratings
Spotify
4.8 / 5
125 ratings

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