Brendan Falk

6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 18, 2025 by Brendan Falk · across every show →

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Sep 18, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
AWS imposed a two-year non-compete clause during its Fig acquisition
“When we got acquired by AWS, we actually had a non-compete for our product for two years. And so I've got 12 days until that non-compete expires.”
Brendan Falk Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 25:24 ⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
Sep 18, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Falk: Decagon and Sierra will always outperform generalist enterprise AI builders
“I can just guarantee that Decagon is always going to be better. Sierra is always going to be better because they spend all day, every day thinking about it.”
Brendan Falk Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 21:55 ⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
Sep 18, 2025 neutral
Insight
Falk: Enterprise AI services only work at $5M-$10M scale or single-vertical focus
“One is you could keep doing the model, but only go after projects that go up to ten million dollars. I think that's really the only way this actually works or five million dollars, not even at the company level. It has to be the one project that can scale up t…”
Brendan Falk Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 23:16 ⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
Sep 18, 2025 bearish
Insight
Falk: The Palantir deployment model fails in AI due to enterprise churn
“This sort of Palantir model really only works if you not, you do a lot of like, you have very low or even negative gross margins in the first year, but then once it's deployed into production, you take the head count off, the margins go up and you have this ni…”
Brendan Falk Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 22:15 ⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
Sep 18, 2025 negative
Insight
Falk: AI cannot solve enterprise messy data because it is a people problem
“I could see a path to AI solving the integrations problem. I really couldn't see a path to AI solving this sort of messy data problem because it's more of a people process problem than it is like an AI software problem.”
Brendan Falk Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 20:02 ⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
Sep 18, 2025 neutral
Insight
Falk: Scoping large custom enterprise contracts requires only marginally more work than small ones
“It's the amount of work for like a 500 K contract versus a million dollar contract versus a five million dollar contract. It's not proportional. It is like, you know, a little bit more work to get a much larger contract. And so it's just far more optimal to go…”
Brendan Falk Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 10:09 ⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
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