There's a huge gap between what's possible and the defense world. China has innovated t a lot faster in us. The best hope for peace is for china to realize that we're still innovating, ad that they're not getting ahead of us in defense. A lot of what we spend on defense in america's just like the leftovers from our welfare program. We don't need these giant avisary ships near threshing ground. Lvid too an excite them are very nationalist. So they have been gaining on us very dramatically. It's also critical for our country to get talent working on these problems. Lots of things we build for the wrong reasons
First Jason covers the $19M Bored Ape Yacht Club bid on Sotheby's & the Loot NFT collection launched by a Vine co-founder (1:42), and briefly covers Tether being banned from Canadian exchanges (11:07). Then serial founder and investor Joe Lonsdale joins (19:53) to discuss his companies (Palantir, Addepar, OpenGov), his new podcast "American Optimist," what regulations need to be fixed in the US, China's bold moves & more.