Project Maven
product on 12 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes · said 59 times in 34 episodes since 2021
the a16z Podcast 14 
American Optimist 12 
TBPN 11 
Sourcery 7 
My First Million 6 
Big Technology 4 
the Knowledge Project 1 
BigDeal 1 
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2026 22 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Digital Freedom, AI Regulation, and the Fight for the Western Internet | The a16z Show
- FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW
- Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show
- Palantir CEO on Iran, AI Weapons and American Domination | a16z American Dynamism Summit
- The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- How AI's Top New Models Transform Cybersecurity (And Where They Don't) — With Snehal Antani
- Palantir CTO: We Need More Heretics · Joe Lonsdale
- The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 20 mentions in 14 episodes 1 per episode
- From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale
- Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir: Exclusive Interview Inside PLTR Office · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, & David Ulevitch Started a16z’s American Dynamism Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- TBPN Year in Review
- Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
- Palantir CEO Alex Karp on conspiracy theories, short sellers & advice for young people.
- Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale
- How Palantir Is Modernizing the Military With AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
- The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- Ep 76: Accelerate or Die! Guillaume Verdon and the e/acc Movement · Joe Lonsdale
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2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
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8 statements about Project Maven, every show
Michael: Google personnel now regret withdrawing from Pentagon Project Maven contract
“If you fast forward from 2018 where the Google Maven thing happened to 2026, and you talk to people from Google who are involved in that, I think they regret it.”
Sankar: NCIS investigated Project Maven's founder following internal Inspector General complaints
“I actually, you know, in this case, it was weaponized against one of my favorite heretics and heroes, Colonel Drew Cukor, who invented Maven, the founder of Maven, really. But, you know, people would file complaints claiming that he was hiding illegal immigran…”
Ulevitch: Project Maven Was Used During Afghanistan Evacuation
“Project Maven was used to make sure that we didn't leave anyone behind in Afghanistan.”
Lonsdale: Google dropping Project Maven triggered founding of Anduril and Epirus
“Maven came up and they gave it up. And then, you know, that was like the alarm bell that led to the founding of Andrel and Epros and Saronic and these big companies we were building now”
Lonsdale: Google employee protests stopped Google from working on Project Maven
“This is the one that famously Google's protesters stopped it from working on, which scared a lot of us.”
Ulevitch: Early American Dynamism startups emerged after Google left Project Maven
“You know, even in some of the origins where some of the AD companies started, it was after Google bailed out of Project Maven, and people in Silicon Valley were really trying to figure out what was important, how do I want to spend my time, and that, that, tho…”
McCord: 4,000 Google Employees Protested Project Maven Military AI Work
“After I left, after I rolled off the project, we had deployed it in Afghanistan, all that, 4000 people came together and they protested Google's involvement.”