Our family is very, very competitive. But it’s a fun and inspiring sort of competitive. It makes you proud of what you do and makes you want to work hard and do all your homework so you can win. Joe Lonsdale Read Quote
There are people who are better managers than I am. I aspire to be a really good manager, but it’s not my natural personality to do the same thing for 14 hours a day. I have a lot of different interests. I really like product and strategy and business strategy, and I think I’m not bad at it. Joe Lonsdale Read Quote
I think I was really lucky to work as a little kid at PayPal, grew up in the Valley as a coder. Joe Lonsdale Read Quote
The degree to which society creates wealth, I think, is largely determined by government and financial systems. Joe Lonsdale Read Quote
If our society was a lot wealthier, I think we’d also probably have better education systems – this is pretty intuitive, I think, to make as a claim. Joe Lonsdale Read Quote
For me, seed investing isn’t just a good return area but a big part of how we network in Silicon Valley. A lot of our best deals have come from being active in the seed stage. Joe Lonsdale Read Quote