Joe Lonsdale

this is what happens in wars and one of my favorite books on this is uh the first world war by winston churchill where he's appointed the first lord of the admiralty and his job is basically to go in and just like knock heads the british navy and get rid of all the old fuddy-duddies he was super unpopular right he's unpopular as hell that's why they framed him at gallipoli in world war one and then threw him out and he was out of his career for a while because by virtue of having to fight the bureaucracy to fix it everyone hated him and wanted to like

this is what happens in wars and one of my favorite books on this is uh the first world war by winston churchill where he's appointed the first lord of the admiralty and his job is basically to go in and just like knock heads the british navy and get rid of all the old fuddy-duddies he was super unpopular right he's unpopular as hell that's why they framed him at gallipoli in world war one and then threw him out and he was out of his career for a while because by virtue of having to fight the bureaucracy to fix it everyone hated him and wanted to like

make him look really bad. And then he goes through this really tough part of his career for a long time and then shockingly comes back and saves the West. But it really is interesting. If you are one of those people who's just really bold and smart and just push through and fix things, yeah, it pisses a lot of people off. But it's necessary to win the war. Is...

make him look really bad. And then he goes through this really tough part of his career for a long time and then shockingly comes back and saves the West. But it really is interesting. If you are one of those people who's just really bold and smart and just push through and fix things, yeah, it pisses a lot of people off. But it's necessary to win the war. Is...

make him look really bad. And then he goes through this really tough part of his career for a long time and then shockingly comes back and saves the West. But it really is interesting. If you are one of those people who's just really bold and smart and just push through and fix things, yeah, it pisses a lot of people off. But it's necessary to win the war. Is...

It's even more important now. Of course, come on. It's even more important now. Here's the thing. This is a dialectic. Again, if you're going to go back, you wanted another. The dialectic is there's two things that are true. We have this like inexorably powerful system that pushes history and pushes things in certain directions. It's really hard to overcome the system.

It's even more important now. Of course, come on. It's even more important now. Here's the thing. This is a dialectic. Again, if you're going to go back, you wanted another. The dialectic is there's two things that are true. We have this like inexorably powerful system that pushes history and pushes things in certain directions. It's really hard to overcome the system.

It's even more important now. Of course, come on. It's even more important now. Here's the thing. This is a dialectic. Again, if you're going to go back, you wanted another. The dialectic is there's two things that are true. We have this like inexorably powerful system that pushes history and pushes things in certain directions. It's really hard to overcome the system.

You can't just be a great man and just walk up to the system and like slice it all in half. That's not how it works. You're not just like, I exist outside of history. No, the way great men work of history is you understand the system deeply.

You can't just be a great man and just walk up to the system and like slice it all in half. That's not how it works. You're not just like, I exist outside of history. No, the way great men work of history is you understand the system deeply.

You can't just be a great man and just walk up to the system and like slice it all in half. That's not how it works. You're not just like, I exist outside of history. No, the way great men work of history is you understand the system deeply.

And the way, you know, Peter Thiel, I was talking to earlier today, talked about it is you see there's this big wave coming and you get in front of the wave and you surf it and you use it to cut through and fix things. And you use it to build things and you use it to do things because you're working with the system in the direction of it. But then, but then like fundamentally the,

And the way, you know, Peter Thiel, I was talking to earlier today, talked about it is you see there's this big wave coming and you get in front of the wave and you surf it and you use it to cut through and fix things. And you use it to build things and you use it to do things because you're working with the system in the direction of it. But then, but then like fundamentally the,

And the way, you know, Peter Thiel, I was talking to earlier today, talked about it is you see there's this big wave coming and you get in front of the wave and you surf it and you use it to cut through and fix things. And you use it to build things and you use it to do things because you're working with the system in the direction of it. But then, but then like fundamentally the,

breaking through the bureaucracy, breaking through this other area, inspiring people with a better solution. So, so that, so it is dialectic where it is a really hard system to change and there are certain things you can't change, but then you desperately need the great men who are bold and who do study it and who do like change things and make things possible.

breaking through the bureaucracy, breaking through this other area, inspiring people with a better solution. So, so that, so it is dialectic where it is a really hard system to change and there are certain things you can't change, but then you desperately need the great men who are bold and who do study it and who do like change things and make things possible.

breaking through the bureaucracy, breaking through this other area, inspiring people with a better solution. So, so that, so it is dialectic where it is a really hard system to change and there are certain things you can't change, but then you desperately need the great men who are bold and who do study it and who do like change things and make things possible.

And thank God we have Elon Musk and SpaceX is just one example. Like America would be screwed from a defense perspective and from other perspectives. Oh yeah. Why?

And thank God we have Elon Musk and SpaceX is just one example. Like America would be screwed from a defense perspective and from other perspectives. Oh yeah. Why?

And thank God we have Elon Musk and SpaceX is just one example. Like America would be screwed from a defense perspective and from other perspectives. Oh yeah. Why?