Joe Lonsdale quotes

Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun.

Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.

If you can make finance more functional, make it a tiny percent better, you create a great deal of resources, which you can use for other things like education and healthcare.

Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of these have a huge impact on everything else.

One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.

We created Addepar because we saw a place where a multi-billion dollar global platform clearly should exist - but did not yet - to fix many of the challenges that exist in the finance industry.

One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.