Joe Lonsdale

so partisan is that like the goal of uatex is not to be a partisan institution and by the way it'd be a failure if it was a right-wing institution in the sense that there weren't i mean you want to have the smartest and best people there you want to be arguing with people who disagree with you in classes and with professors right it's not a healthy intellectual environment if if only one side dominates what you can do and this this is a little bit more controversial i guess but what you can do at the administrative level you could say we don't want to be conquered by

by illiberal forces. What are illiberal forces? Illiberal is stuff that's against kind of the values of freedom in our society, against free speech. So illiberalism is communism. That's specifically an illiberal force. Other authoritarian things are identity politics and that whole culture that does seek to impose a lot of those things top down is very broken.

by illiberal forces. What are illiberal forces? Illiberal is stuff that's against kind of the values of freedom in our society, against free speech. So illiberalism is communism. That's specifically an illiberal force. Other authoritarian things are identity politics and that whole culture that does seek to impose a lot of those things top down is very broken.

by illiberal forces. What are illiberal forces? Illiberal is stuff that's against kind of the values of freedom in our society, against free speech. So illiberalism is communism. That's specifically an illiberal force. Other authoritarian things are identity politics and that whole culture that does seek to impose a lot of those things top down is very broken.

It's kind of a morphed new form of communism. And frankly, things like Islamism, like the implied authoritarian framework of that. is also something that's an authoritarian force. So those are the types of things you say, we're not going to let those conquer our institution.

It's kind of a morphed new form of communism. And frankly, things like Islamism, like the implied authoritarian framework of that. is also something that's an authoritarian force. So those are the types of things you say, we're not going to let those conquer our institution.

It's kind of a morphed new form of communism. And frankly, things like Islamism, like the implied authoritarian framework of that. is also something that's an authoritarian force. So those are the types of things you say, we're not going to let those conquer our institution.

We're going to be explicit about it, but it's really important to have free speech in the institution and have people with different backgrounds and views.

We're going to be explicit about it, but it's really important to have free speech in the institution and have people with different backgrounds and views.

We're going to be explicit about it, but it's really important to have free speech in the institution and have people with different backgrounds and views.

Well, you know, so when you have an institution like this, you want to bring in the top entrepreneurs in our country, the top innovators in our country, and you want to expose them to the students in a way where they're helping shape the courses. But you also want to have all the top academics on the humanities side. So we have what's called intellectual foundations on one side, where we think...

Well, you know, so when you have an institution like this, you want to bring in the top entrepreneurs in our country, the top innovators in our country, and you want to expose them to the students in a way where they're helping shape the courses. But you also want to have all the top academics on the humanities side. So we have what's called intellectual foundations on one side, where we think...

Well, you know, so when you have an institution like this, you want to bring in the top entrepreneurs in our country, the top innovators in our country, and you want to expose them to the students in a way where they're helping shape the courses. But you also want to have all the top academics on the humanities side. So we have what's called intellectual foundations on one side, where we think...

Every top college student going to a top university should be given the intellectual foundations of our civilization with history and economics and philosophy and the great books and just have that foundation. Right.

Every top college student going to a top university should be given the intellectual foundations of our civilization with history and economics and philosophy and the great books and just have that foundation. Right.

Every top college student going to a top university should be given the intellectual foundations of our civilization with history and economics and philosophy and the great books and just have that foundation. Right.

But then you also want to have courses that are shaped not only STEM, but stuff that's shaped by, you know, I have over 100 friends who are founders of billion dollar companies who signed up to be on our talent network and to give us input. What do you want people to learn if they're going to come work at your companies or build companies with you? And so I think having both of those is very rare.

But then you also want to have courses that are shaped not only STEM, but stuff that's shaped by, you know, I have over 100 friends who are founders of billion dollar companies who signed up to be on our talent network and to give us input. What do you want people to learn if they're going to come work at your companies or build companies with you? And so I think having both of those is very rare.

But then you also want to have courses that are shaped not only STEM, but stuff that's shaped by, you know, I have over 100 friends who are founders of billion dollar companies who signed up to be on our talent network and to give us input. What do you want people to learn if they're going to come work at your companies or build companies with you? And so I think having both of those is very rare.

Exactly. I think having both, and this is a dialectic, I'm obsessed with these dialectics, but there's like truth for why both of those extremes are important and you need to merge them and have them there. And by the way, when you merge them properly, it's really fun because you can get... different debates about what's going on in the innovation world at a startup.