Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist: guest pitching info, reach and format

Should you pitch it?

Guest activity

Sometimes has guests

20% of recent episode titles look like interviews

Episode length

39 min

Median of recent episodes. That is the commitment you would be asking for.

Publishing

Monthly

162 episodes · last 2026-08-24

Language

Not stated

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Where it's from

Not established

No .uk domain and no region in the feed language. Apple reports the storefront, not the show, so we do not guess.

Reach

65

Percentile among shows you could realistically get on. Not a download count.

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Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

What the show says about itself

American Optimist, hosted by Joe Lonsdale: entrepreneur, investor, and founder of four multi-billion dollar companies and other mission-driven organizations. American Optimist is an alternative to the fear, cynicism, and zero-sum thinking in mainstream media. Learn from the innovators and leaders who are solving our nation’s most pressing challenges, and doing it in a way that will lift everyone up. Hope should dominate our discourse, and American Optimist will show you why. blog.joelonsdale.com

Recent episodes

Straight from the feed. The quickest way to judge whether your angle fits.

Ep 161: Generalist CEO Pete Florence on the Robot Revolution & Bringing General Intelligence to the Physical World
Ep 160: Box CEO Aaron Levie on Silicon Valley's AI Problem, Evidence for AI Job Creation & What Doomers and Accelerationists Get Wrong
Ep 159: Aaron Cannon Is Building the Leading AI Customer Research Platform; It's About to Upend a $140B Industry
Ep 158: Nima Ghamsari on Blend's Comeback & the Power of AI Agents and Infinite Workforce
Ep 157: Scott Nolan on the AI Energy Crisis & America's Nuclear Renaissance
Ep 156: Coleman Hughes Takes on America's Most Contentious Debate: the Legacy of Slavery

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