# Joe Lonsdale First Degree Connections The **full directly-connected map** for [[Joe Lonsdale]] — every person, firm, and institution with a documented first-degree tie, annotated by the *type* of tie. Broader than [[Joe Lonsdale Inner Circle]]; this is the whole one-hop neighborhood. The capital view is [[Musk-Thiel Funding Map]]. > "First degree" = a tie Lonsdale holds personally (co-founder, funder, board, documented associate). ## People — by tie type | Person | Tie type | Note | |---|---|---| | [[Peter Thiel]] | Co-founder / patron | [[Palantir]]; [[the Thiel network]] | | [[Alex Karp]] | Co-founder | [[Palantir]] CEO | | [[Stephen Cohen]] · [[Nathan Gettings]] | Co-founders | [[Palantir]] | | [[Palmer Luckey]] | Co-founder (bank) | [[Erebor]]; [[8VC]]→[[Anduril]] | | [[Ken Howery]] | Network peer | PayPal-Mafia-adjacent | | [[Bari Weiss]] | Co-founder (university) | [[University of Austin]] | | [[Marc Andreessen]] | VC peer | Defense-tech-VC sibling | | [[Donald Trump]] | Backed (2024) | via [[America PAC]] co-donor | | [[Scott Bessent]] · [[Ted Cruz]] | [[Dialog Society]] co-members | Off-the-record Thiel-world forum | ## Firms, funds & institutions (Lonsdale-founded or Lonsdale-run) The holdings detail is in [[Joe Lonsdale Holdings]]. First-degree entities: - [[8VC]] (founder) · [[Addepar]] (co-founder) · [[OpenGov]] (co-founder) · [[Erebor]] (co-founder) · [[Palantir]] (co-founder; retained equity/advisory) - [[Cicero Institute]] (founder) · [[University of Austin]] (co-founder) ## 8VC Build-program portfolio (defense) | Company | Domain | |---|---| | [[Anduril]] | Autonomous weapons | | [[Epirus]] | Counter-drone directed energy | | [[Saronic Technologies]] | Autonomous maritime | | Joby Aviation | eVTOL (military potential) | | [[Polymarket]] | Prediction markets (via Human Capital tie) | ## See Also - [[Joe Lonsdale Inner Circle]] — the trusted core subset - [[Joe Lonsdale Holdings]] — the entity side in detail - [[Musk-Thiel Funding Map]] · [[Defense Tech Conflicts of Interest]] - [[Joe Lonsdale Dossier]]