Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale: “You have to be using AI and crypto at the same time”

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]First of all, you have to be using AI and crypto at the same time, otherwise you're not doing crypto right, right?

[00:00:03]There's a every everything's AI now. Um but I feel like crypto is not any different than anything else we're doing in the sense that you need to find a gap in the world where you're like, "Here's how this works today. Here's how this is going to work better for everyone." And be really confident to like talk to a lot of people and iterate on how you define that gap. Then you run it and you run it persistently cuz you know it's a gap and you're going to solve it and you get as many smart friends as you can.

[00:00:26]You go after it with the top tech culture. And I feel like that formula is like the same for every startup. So if you don't have like a big gap in the world where you're making the world work better, if your if your idea for a startup is you're going to like get people that are going to like hack and get people addicted to something somehow. I mean that's like a different way of doing things, but I just I think it's a lot harder. I think I think if you know there's a gap you're going after this solving a problem, like that is the highest percentage chance way to like make a successful company cuz you cuz you know you're contributing to a mission. It's like building something that should exist in the world.