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Joe Lonsdale

How Trump is Upgrading America

2026-07-19 · 3 company · 7 thematic
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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.

jared isaacman

Jared Isaacman is the NASA Administrator appointed by President Trump. He founded Shift4 Payments (NYSE: FOUR) at age 16, built Draken International (fighter jet adversary air services), and commanded the Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn commercial space missions with SpaceX.

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