Alex Karp: Adversarial hardware cultures will inherently struggle to build software
Alex Karp · Alex Karp On The Future Of AI And Building A Multi Billion-Dollar Company · Joe Lonsdale · Jul 14, 2023 · at 29:10
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, discusses military tech dominance and defense procurement reform with Joe Lonsdale.
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“One of our advantages in software is that we like the hardware cultures are really struggle with software because these things are true for tanks and they're true for other things and big metal things. They're not true for software, but again, it's also true that software is the most important asset and our adversaries Are going to be much better at building these big metal things than they are at software.”
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