Accelerate USA 2026: Joe Lonsdale and Raj Gokal
summary
Argues that entering regulated markets with elite engineers wins by fixing obvious, long-broken systems; gives concrete examples: Palantir and SpaceX took a decade to break into defense primes, an EMP project uses AI-accelerated microwave cones frying electronics miles away but lost funding after primes rewrote rules, and early crypto bets included Solana via Sam Lesson and leading a first check into Aerobor. Notes Addepar now reports roughly $10 trillion in assets and that public company counts are half of what they were 20 years ago.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Building in regulated sectors
- 2:20Navigating entrenched systems
- 4:26Regulatory strategy lessons
- 7:15Geopolitics and innovation
- 9:00Crypto and capital markets
- 12:13Libertarian views on finance
- 13:42Advice for startup builders
- 16:06American tech dominance
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