Palantir

“Alex Karp, who is my co-founder of Palantir, he is this great philosopher and has all these theories of the mind, and he'll meet someone in two minutes and he'll know all sorts of things about them.”

“The reason we were able to recruit a lot of the best people is we started with a bunch of the best people. So it's very chicken and egg. I, you know, from the chess world, from the math world, from Stanford computer science, from my friends who, you know, were…”

“But the whole point is you have to build in all these civil liberties frameworks, and you have to watch it carefully, because when you create power, it can be captured and used for evil.”

“So what I did at Palantir is we actually ended up putting this in all of our offers as we'd give them three offers of different salary and different equity. And then we'd show them and we have a little caveat down below. It was kind of fun. We'd show them like…”

“Palatine worked because we worked really closely with a lot of the special forces communities and the teams and people like that who were competent, and we helped go to Iraq, we helped reduce the number of IED deaths, and really kind of, you know, fix things, …”

“David Hume was always a really important influence on me. A lot of the ideas of how he understood how the mind worked and how reason worked really shaped a lot of how we designed Palantir and some of our technology early on.”