Serial entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale, who founded the Cicero Institute to fix government and University of Austin to fix higher education, wanted space to flourish in Texas.

0:00- What is 8VC?
1:56- Why did Lonsdale move to Texas?
6:00- Why are rich Americans leaving the country?
7:46- The future of artificial intelligence
13:10- What is Palantir?
18:29- Joe Lonsdale's perspective on Julian Assange
22:06- How can Palantir detect fraud?
24:35- What is wrong about a Trump v. Biden rematch?
27:30- What is the Cicero Institute?
32:54- Should we create nonprofit prisons?
36:06- Are too many things crimes?
38:10- The future of higher education
42:30- Why we should be optimistic
47:41- Ayn Rand's influence on Lonsdale

https://reason.com/podcast/2024/04/03...
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Joe Lonsdale is a co-founder of the data analytics firm Palantir; OpenGov, which provides cloud software services for governments; and the University of Austin, which seeks to reform higher education. He's the managing partner of 8VC, a tech and life sciences venture capital fund, and is chairman of the board of the Cicero Institute, a nonprofit working to "restore liberty, accountability, and innovation in American governance."

Reason's Nick Gillespie asked Lonsdale why he relocated to Texas from California, how to curb government overreach while providing essential services, his goals for his podcast American Optimist, and his 2020 article, "Libertarianism is Dysfunctional, but Liberty is Great."