Joe Lonsdale

Joe Lonsdale is a founding partner at 8VC, a San Francisco-based venture capital fund. He serves on several boards including Addepar, OpenGov, Affinity, Illumio, Radius, and Wish. Joe is a co-founder of Palantir, a multi-billion dollar global software company bestknown for its work in defense and finance. Most recently, he was a founding partner at Formation 8, the precursor fund to 8VC, which manages over $1.5 billion. Before that, hef ounded Addepar, a leading wealth management technology platform, and OpenGov, and was an early executive at Clarium Capital, which he helped grow into a large global macro hedge fund. He also worked with the financial arm of PayPal while he was at Stanford. Joe received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford in 2003. He often lectures and writes on entrepreneurship andtechnology.