Palantir
8 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 25, 2022 by Palmer Luckey · said 47 times in 18 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shaan Puri (23), Joe Lonsdale (14), Sam Parr (8), Palmer Luckey (1)
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2025 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok
- I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure)
- 5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)
- This guy made Millions by inventing the $1 Menu
- The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
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2024 34 mentions in 8 episodes 4 per episode
- From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview
- I Spent 7 Days With The Richest Men In Texas
- Q&A: Gut punches, favorite guests, plus advice for life
- The AI App Doing $6M With 1 Employee
- 10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- 3 Stories Of People Making Millions In Weird Ways
- The Wild Story of Mike Lynch’s Rise From Janitor to Tech Billionaire
- Data Backed Businesses Guaranteed To Make +$1M From Day 1
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Palantir, oldest first
Oct 25, 2022 neutral
Luckey: SpaceX and Palantir were the only defense unicorns in 35 years
“In the last 35 years, there were only two unicorns before Anderil in the defense space and 35 years, not just being chosen arbitrarily. It's basically since the end of the cold war during the cold war, we did turn small defense companies into major players. Bu…”
Apr 26, 2024
Lonsdale: Blended Reasons Mean Founders Have Not Found Core Strategy
“Usually there's like one reason that dominates everything else. And that's just the nature of the world is that when something's successful, It's kind of like the power law rule, right? Like in a venture capital, like fund, even there tends to be one thing tha…”
Apr 26, 2024
Lonsdale: Founders cannot lead with substance alone when approaching institutions
“I get a lot of young people maybe underestimate the substance is important, but it's, you can't lead with substance because substance is not taken seriously. So you have to have the substance to win, but you have to have all the trappings of why they're taking…”
Apr 26, 2024
Evaluating Top Talent Requires Being Within Two Standard Deviations of Their Ability
“Is you can't really appreciate a talent unless you're within two standard deviations of it. So you think of talent as being on a normal curve for any typical, typical skill. It could be for math, could be for podcasts, whatever it is. And like, so you kind of …”
Apr 26, 2024 negative
Lonsdale: Early commercial partnerships often cap startup upside and hinder iteration
“A lot of startups, when you're getting going, you want to like, you get really excited about some partnership on the table and you think it's going to really help you. But a lot of partnerships will cap your upside. A lot of partnerships will limit your abilit…”
Apr 26, 2024 positive
Apr 26, 2024
Palantir Founders Initially Asked Alex Karp to Pretend to Be CEO
“And so we actually convinced him to pretend to be CEO for a few years. So that Peter would stop trying to hire like a really like senior, like military guy, but then he was such a good CEO. Then he actually was, he's still CEO, 20 years later.”