Joe Lonsdale Email Address

General Partner

Addepar is the first investment management platform for investors and advisors that easily handles all of your assets, connecting your financial goals with actionable insights.

I am a partner at 8VC, our investment fund [www.8VC.com].Previously, much of our team at 8VC helped us build Formation 8, which was one of the top performing private funds in Silicon Valley and still manages over 1.5B across multiple funds. We are still working closely with a lot of these entrepreneurs, and continuing to learn from them.I co-founded Palantir Technologies in 2004, one of the world's most impactful multi-billion dollar software companies. Palantir's systems are used to solve problems that are existential for our civilization in a number of industries, and we are also proud of its global philanthropic work.Founder of Addepar in 2009. Addepar's team is fixing multi-trillion dollar segments of global finance with our open platforms -- the company is growing rapidly and I am an active Chairman.Founding Chairman of Affinity, Zanbato, and OpenGov, and Chairman at ONEHOPE Wine.Macroeconomics and Computer Science background. Worked briefly at PayPal. Helped grow Clarium from a start-up into a $5-billion AUM global macro hedge fund as a trader and manager, and learned about organizational dynamics.I am interested in fixing big industries, particularly impactful and complex ones such as understanding and reversing the decline of our civilization's governments, and global finance.Specialties: Developing and Deploying Talent; Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Management; Technology Entrepreneurship, History, Economics, and Cognition.