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Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 57:51 David George Like Palantir, um, the inference providers, um, the application companies.
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- ▶ 7:05 Anish Acharya Felt like 10 years ago, it was sort of, you know, it was lower status to work on something like Palantir, either because people were nervous about doing things that were too much in the national interest or because it was sort of dismissed… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:40 Garry Tan I mean, if I look at my own career, like, I would easily say that I'm a late bloomer, and, you know, I had to make these, like, ridiculous mistakes, like saying no to Palantir, or like, leaving web programming to, like, learn, and so, uh,…
How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models
- ▶ 25:33 unnamed speaker And Ashwin, you used to be a deployment strategist at Palantir, so you're very familiar with the forward deployed model that Palantir popularized. 5 times in the scene
The Media Game Has Changed
- ▶ 0:27 Ben Horowitz If you watch his interviews, he never talks about Palantir.
- ▶ 13:56 Ben Horowitz And the same thing, like, is, is it Palantir or is it Alex?
- ▶ 36:25 Ben Horowitz If you watch his interviews, he never talks about Palantir. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:00 Marc Andreessen Um, what percentage of the investors in, you know, Palantir have read the S-one, K-one, right?
The New Rule for Picking AI Winners | The a16z Show
- ▶ 28:56 David Clark Palantir is the only one. 2 times in the scene
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 1:23 Katherine Boyle And I, you know, John Doyle, so many of our founders have pointed to Shyam as the person who made their career and introduced them to Palantir, supported them in Palantir, but also sort of, um, you know, gave them wings to fly away from… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:55 Katherine Boyle Why, why write a book, join the army, um, and also be leading Palantir?
- ▶ 13:10 Shyam Sankar Uh, I like to say, like, when we started Palantir, there was no front door in the Department of Defense.
- ▶ 26:38 Shyam Sankar On the flip side for us, at least COVID was a huge tailwind because it's specifically because we were able to help our, our, our customers adapt to this reality at the speed of the disruption.
- ▶ 36:05 Eric Vishria I mean, I'm curious how you think about, um, sort of the, the jobs at tech companies, um, you know, leveraging with AI, how you're using in your, in your own, uh, you know, in, in Palantir. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:37 Shyam Sankar Uh, and a big part of like how I think of what Pounder does in the world is it, it is about the legitimacy of our institutions.
- ▶ 40:42 Katherine Boyle Um, and you have now been investing in film, uh, which is totally different than what you do at Palantir.
Palantir CEO on Iran, AI Weapons and American Domination | a16z American Dynamism Summit
- ▶ 0:34 Alex Karp If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job, the most important thing Pallengeer is doing is to make sure that American warfighters are much more likely to come home.
- ▶ 1:36 unnamed speaker Um, but of course, there's been a lot of news, and so I wanna get straight to, to the news and what's happening in the world, um, because Palantir is certainly, um, part of that story.
- ▶ 8:52 Alex Karp In the, in the lifetime of Palantir, there's been the rise of software, which essentially meant meant your, you know, software company that is supplying a steak dinner is obviously parasitic is not cutting it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:54 Alex Karp And despite what everyone thinks Palantir is the anti-surveillance company, I know your person online thinks that's not true, but every technical expert does, so I end up in every conversation that I don't want to be in.
- ▶ 25:47 unnamed speaker I actually, I want to, um, end the conversation on Palantir is the OG American dynamism company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:02 unnamed speaker Are epic in their own right, but they started at Palantir in many cases. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:25 Alex Karp And at the end of the day, that's why Palantir is like playing such a big role because like Foundry, PG, Apollo, ontology, uh, the management of ontology that Maven, which is like, you know, we've just like been able to target in a way no…
- ▶ 30:25 Alex Karp And at the end of the day, that's why Palantir is like playing such a big role because like Foundry, PG, Apollo, ontology, uh, the management of ontology that Maven, which is like, you know, we've just like been able to target in a way no…
From $0 to $11B: The ElevenLabs Story
- ▶ 2:25 Mati Staniszewski I was at Palantir.
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- ▶ 59:41 David George So you had at the same time, you have market need, you had people that figured out how to do this inside of SpaceX and, and, uh, Palantir who have then left to start companies.
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 34:06 unnamed speaker It's sort of the Palantir opportunity. 2 times in the scene
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 41:54 Ben Horowitz Is it Palantir or is it Alex?
- ▶ 57:39 Marc Andreessen Palantir is enterprise, you know, government as it gets. 2 times in the scene
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 34:16 Vlad Tenev I mean, you had Palantir, you had some others.
- ▶ 39:14 Alex Rampell Like the fact that Palantir is like a runaway tech favorite or sorry, retail favorite, uh, and trades at a very high multiple.
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- ▶ 17:20 unnamed speaker Um, I remember a few months ago, Paul Graham was trying to critique Palantir, I think, for sort of involvement in some sort of military.
- ▶ 36:16 Katherine Boyle Well, we always say SpaceX and Palantir walked so that everyone else could run, and I, it's maybe unfair to say that they walked, but both of them had to sue the government.
The Person Who Runs HR For 2 Million Federal Workers
- ▶ 4:25 Katherine Boyle Greg, I want to come to you because you have a very different background of having worked at Palantir, um, a veteran, um, you know, done a host of different things, but really always focused on technology.
- ▶ 40:10 Greg Barbaccia And also just again, going back to this concept of one government, uh, my background in intelligence and my background at Palantir, how do we take a bunch of disparate data sets and use them to drive decision-making?
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 10:50 Katherine Boyle All of those people that, that introduced those books to me, like, 10 years ago when I first moved to the Valley, those people are, like, all American dynamism, hardware, early SpaceX investors, early Palantir, right?
How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
- ▶ 7:41 Ben Scharfstein And we've seen Palantir do this for the past decade. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:56 Ben Scharfstein We break down the forward deployed role, not just a forward deployed engineers, which, you know, Palantir made famous, but we also have forward deployed product.
- ▶ 28:54 Ben Scharfstein And if you look at Palantir, for example, they still have a very robust forward deployed engineering team. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:05 Ben Scharfstein You know, they've worked with the big consulting companies just to train them up on Foundry and actually have them have that kind of pseudo forward deployed motion as well.
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 42:23 Antonio García Martínez And I think there's another book by Alex Karp of, uh, of Palantir called The Technological Republic.
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 1:36:56 Ben Horowitz I think effective for Alex Carpet Palantir.
The U.S. Can’t Build AI Without These Materials
- ▶ 18:16 unnamed speaker You know, I think that they've, like, gradually started to, like, hire more and more folks that can do more internal things, but you have McKinsey, you have Palantir that, that basically act as consultants, and they will look at the large…
America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
- ▶ 15:55 Erin Price-Wright Like, I cut my teeth at Palantir working in oil and gas.
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 30:49 unnamed speaker So the, you know, it's funny, uh, cause there was the, on Twitter, there was the sort of Paul Graham Palantir dust up the other week, which I thought was just pretty symbolic or emblematic of kind of like, uh, not to pick on Paul, but it… 5 times in the scene
How to Enable a Manufacturing Renaissance
- ▶ 9:03 Chris Power Um, and historically, I would say, 10 to 20 years ago, there were companies like SpaceX and Palantir. 3 times in the scene
The Kill Chain: 2025 Edition
- ▶ 6:28 Christian Brose I mean, ah, certainly Shield, but before that even Palantir, SpaceX, others, um, there were people who were doing this work, but, I mean, just the explosion of interest and energy, ah, you know, frankly, just kind of the strength in…
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 0:08 David Ignatius Sean, it's a pleasure to be here with you and to be able to talk with you about Palantir, a company I've seen innovating on the battlefield, uh, and at home.
- ▶ 7:04 Shyam Sankar At Palantir, over the last two decades, there are probably, like, 10 major efforts I've been involved with that are really going from zero to one to one to end.
- ▶ 9:32 David Ignatius So let's, let's talk a little bit about, uh, your company Palantir.
- ▶ 12:23 David Ignatius Give us a sense of, of how that manufacturing revolution to drive down costs, standardized production might work, and what role your company would play in it.
- ▶ 17:51 David Ignatius I want to ask you to speak about a subject that's vastly complex, but is crucial to your company and to everybody in the audience, and that's, uh, AI. 2 times in the scene
The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America
- ▶ 4:09 unnamed speaker Um, in fact, when I left the service, I went to law school, and the reason I never really practiced law was because I figured out pretty quickly that that was not a path to, or not, it's really not a direct path to entrepreneurship or the…
- ▶ 8:02 unnamed speaker I left Palantir in February of twenty-twenty-two to start CAPE. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:56 Matt Shortal Um, as we look at, you know, going from veteran to founder, can you jump straight from veteran and found a company, or do you need to stop somewhere in between an Anderol, a Palantir, and know what right it looks like, know what culture… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:45 Matt Shortal For me, personally, you know, especially at Android, Palantir, you know, I could go to SpaceX,
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 20:49 Erin Price-Wright Yeah, I definitely, I spent my career before investing at Palantir and, uh, you know, a large reason why we were able to sell to customers like BP and others were, you know, people liked that Palantir was the software that they used to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:23 Jason Brown I mean, if you, if you look at the top 100 venture backed companies that are doing business with the Department of Defense, and you take SpaceX and Palantir, put it aside, so now the top 98, um, that's ten billion dollars a year of…
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
- ▶ 7:58 Justin Fanelli Uh, SpaceX has, Palantir has, but, uh, number one, we want that to be, uh, more straightforward.
- ▶ 28:51 Alex Miller Like, I, I, Palantir was an In-Q-Tel investment.
How AI Is Changing Warfare, with Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf
- ▶ 1:09 Brian Schimpf Um, so I was at Palantir for about 10 years. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:50 Brian Schimpf You know, I think a lot of the things that were starting to happen in Ukraine, a lot of the great work Palantir did was on things like this, where it was like the targeting process of going from satellite imagery through to, hey, this…
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 14:21 Marc Andreessen And then the relationship between the government and the private sector is just always a little bit fraught, right?
The China Threat: Silicon Valley and the Great Uncoupling
- ▶ 18:45 Congressman Mike Gallagher Carpet Palantir, like Palmer Luckey,
Intro to American Dynamism
- ▶ 5:02 Katherine Boyle They were very wary of companies that had to go through the long procurement cycle to work with government, and so there was sort of this meme in Silicon Valley that you can't build a big government business, and if we've seen anything…
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- ▶ 9:38 Palmer Luckey Palantir and SpaceX that were able to become unicorns.
AI & The Future of Modern Warfare
- ▶ 20:55 unnamed speaker He went, he was on the ground, checking out what was going on, then, um, founder and CEO of Palantir also was out there.
a16z Podcast | The Changing Relationship Between Tech and Government
- ▶ 14:04 Adrian Fenty Uh, and she said that she used, uh, Palantir, uh, a lot, and this, I mean, she, I was obviously using it when, when I was in office too, and I was, I didn't even know that, and she, and so I really, I was, I was really pleasantly surprised…