Palantir

“I thought this was going to be actually relatively easy after the Palantir stuff. It turns out it took us about three years with a team of, like, you know, 30 or 40 really talented, you know, product engineer people to get, like, the basic systems to work at t…”

“Palantir has about, I guess, 1500 people and 18 offices around the world. It's like half in global defense of about 18 countries, I guess where it's working in defense and intelligence, and it's working about half in finance and other commercial areas now.”

“I think there's over a thousand partners now, actually, building on top of Palance here”

“And I think probably one of the best ROIs was, like, renting out, like, all of, like, the subway ads around the Pentagon or something.”

“I, I'm not poaching from Palantir yet. I always told Palantir, if they stop growing really quickly, I'm going to take their best guys, but I can't do that yet.”

“I started the finance side of Palantir, which became the commercial side, which is about half of Palantir's business now”

“Palantir in 2005 had to create the concept of an internal cloud because basically that's the only way to make it work for governments because they're not willing to use the external clouds.”

“When Palantir went into one of the banks, we actually replaced one system from 1979.”

“So, I think that, I actually think that for the first five years, we almost, did almost none of that.”

“We eventually were able to get, get past that and, you know, charge a hundred million dollars for something that would have cost five hundred million dollars, and that, but that was like multiple years into it before you can get contracts that size.”

“They're, you know, at 2.7 billion of ARR today, which is pretty massive.”

“It's the most richly valued software company today.”