Joe Lonsdale (September 12, 1982) is an American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. Lonsdale is a founding partner at Formation 8 Partners, a Silicon Valley technology investment fund that operates mostly between the United States and Asia. Lonsdale also co-founded and serves as Chairman of Addepar, a private wealth management technology company. Previously, Lonsdale co-founded Palantir Technologies, a private company focused on analyzing, integrating and visualizing data especially in the global defense and finance space. Palantir was recently valued at as much as $8 billion on secondary markets. Prior to Palantir, Lonsdale was an early executive at Clarium Capital, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund founded by Peter Thiel. Lonsdale has founded a number of other companies and organizations, including OpenGov, Zanbato, as well as working with Lady Gaga to launch Backplane. He also served as founding Chairman of The Seasteading Institute, California Common Sense, and is the Chairman of ONEHOPE Wine. Lonsdale has invested in dozens of early stage technology companies.
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