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▶ 23:50 · $BLEND · How AI Agents Are Creating an Infinitely Scalable Workforce
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Joe Lonsdale

How AI Agents Are Creating an Infinitely Scalable Workforce

2026-06-18 · 4 company · 5 thematic
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neema ghamghami sorat

Neema Ghamghami Sorat is the CEO and co-founder of Blend, a digital lending platform processing ~20% of US mortgages and home equity loans. He previously worked at Palantir after graduating from Stanford, where he studied computer science. He grew up in Ohio after his family immigrated from Iran.

joe lonsdale

Joe Lonsdale hosts American Optimists. He co-founded Palantir Technologies and founded venture firm 8VC. He previously hired Scott Wu at an early company and references his experience building Palantir's forward-deployed engineer model and government technology partnerships.

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“Your market cap is in the range of 350 million. And so you're literally trading at less than three times last year's revenue despite having uh probably as much AI deployed as anyone in this sector. And and and hopefully going to accelerate…”
—joe lonsdale
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