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Brown: The top 98 VC-backed defense startups capture 1% of DoD budget
“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 that's ten billion dollars a year of business going to those 98. That's only one aircr…”
Palantir streamlined Ukraine military targeting workflows from satellite imagery to approval
“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 looks like a tank, throug…”
Luckey: SpaceX and Palantir were the only DoD defense unicorns in 30 years
“And if you look at the last 30 years that preceded Andrel, there were only two unicorns doing business with the DoD, Palantir and SpaceX that were able to become unicorns.”
Horowitz: Palantir CEO Alex Karp Never Mentions Palantir in Interviews
“The grand wizard of this is Alex Karp. If you watch his interviews, he never talks about Palantir.”
Sankar: In-Q-Tel was Palantir's only entry path into Defense Department
“When we started Palantir, there was no front door in the Department of Defense. You know, you had to, the only front door, there was exactly one, it was in the intelligence community, it was In-Q-Tel. If you were an outsider, there was no other way in. The onl…”