$COGNITION · Levy: Cognition arms both AI-native disruptors and legacy system integrators

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Levy: Cognition arms both AI-native disruptors and legacy system integrators

2026-07-30 · 8 company · 13 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.

aaron levy

Aaron Levy founded Box in 2005, dropped out of USC after raising from Mark Cuban, pivoted to enterprise in 2006, and has scaled the company to ~120,000 customers and $1-2B revenue run rate. He is an active angel investor focused on AI applications in coding, cybersecurity, and knowledge work.

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“So it just turns out there's opportunity kind of across the stack for all these players but like if you're a cognition you're going to both arm the new disruptor of like let's say system integrator companies that are doing software develop…”

—aaron levy

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