Project Maven

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2024 by Brendan McCord · said 12 times in 6 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Joe Lonsdale (4), Brendan McCord (4), Ian Cinnamon (3), Shyam Sankar (1)

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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode

Palantir CTO: We Need More Heretics · Joe Lonsdale May 8, 2026 · 1 mention · from 26:24
Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale Jan 9, 2026 · 1 mention · from 7:48
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2025 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode

From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale Aug 13, 2025 · 4 mentions · from 0:38
Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale Aug 29, 2025 · 1 mention · from 30:46
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2024 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode

The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale Dec 13, 2024 · 4 mentions · from 3:46
Ep 76: Accelerate or Die! Guillaume Verdon and the e/acc Movement · Joe Lonsdale Jan 31, 2024 · 1 mention · from 10:12
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Everything said about Project Maven, oldest first

Dec 13, 2024 neutral

Assertion Supported

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.”

Brendan McCord Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 4:24 The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale

Aug 13, 2025 negative

Assertion Supported

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.”

Joe Lonsdale Aug 13, 2025 ▶ 6:57 From Palantir to Space Defense: Building a $100 Billion Company · Joe Lonsdale

Aug 29, 2025 positive

Assertion Not checkable as stated

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”

Joe Lonsdale Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 30:46 Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale

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