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D 4 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q over 9000 funds and SPVs, representing nearly one hundred eighty-five billion dollars in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. For more information, visit carta.com One thing that was apparent through the narrative of the book was you're self-made, but you're not self-made in an economic sense. You're self-made in maybe a morals and values sense. So how did you become Alex Cart?
A Well, I mean, you know, there's the, there's all these variables, very smart parents, highly educated, crappy school, which I never would have done, like, you know, it's like, and so you learn, like, the world is violent. Um, uh, dyslexia, meaning there's no playbook I could possibly follow. I think some of the reasons why dyslexics are so outperformant now is that we're in a non-playbook world, and the playbook's not that valuable, but if you're dyslexic, you can't You can't follow the playbook, or only in the third rate way, so you, you invent new and generative things. Um, I, Um, I, look, I've never been accused of false ill modesty. I think, in the end, for, to do something important, whether it's me, or like, Eliana, or look at all these people here, like, these are among the best and most talented people in the world. At a certain level of accomplishment, you're in an artistic space where it's very hard to explain why you have your insights, and it goes way beyond experiences that have, of course, also influenced them, but like, I just have artistic impulses and they shape my life and I've allowed myself or I've been forced to allow myself the freedom to live that way. And in there's one country in the world where, you know, you get rewarded for that because in America, if you deliver, you can be you, you know, like you're your own boss, right? You decide who you want to …
AI assessment note: “there's all these variables, very smart parents, highly educated, crappy school”
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D 4 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q How is the value creation for Palantir different than traditional SaaS companies?
A Uh, well, here, okay, so, well, first of all, it's important to remember, we are valued, like, we drive our whole business based on a set of beliefs that are, like, America's superiority and so on that, but, but then, interestingly, that's tethered to the value creation argument you're asking, which is, at the end of the day, if you believe your client is noble, like, I believe our US government clients are not only noble, but they're no more noble Than I am. And I'm happy with myself, but they're doing missions that are, will change world history for the better. Ok, so if you know that, The thing that's going to happen downstream from that is you're going to resist building parasitic products, right? Because like, I don't want a product that will make me despite what anyone, but like anyone who's been a pounder will know this to be true. We, I did, we did not the audacity of just saying we're going to build a product in PG that's going to make you safer. Oh, let's go away from the ambient noise. Uh, um, that will make you, uh, safer, And more protected. Is audacious in a weird way that we didn't realize the most audacious part of that was saying, we're going to build a product. That's actually what the client needs because what you're supposed to be doing software is build the client that the client gets addicted to, not the one they need. And like, this is like, and this is a…
AI assessment note: “software is build the client that the client gets addicted to, not the one they need”
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D 3 · C 2 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.30
Q Do you think that's how Palantir is being viewed right now?
A Well, no, I mean, I think people, like, I think, I think one of the, one of the crazy things about our society is people who are more on the front line, like soldiers, workers, uh, vocational workers, um, What we call retail investors. They're actually looking at the front line data in an unfiltered way. And then almost everybody else has outsourced value assessment and quantitative metrics to experts. But the experts in general are, I can't think of any expert class that's been right about anything substantive in the last 20 years. And then, so at this point, when you're like, when the experts call the experts, the analysts in this case, or journalists, or I don't know, you're a financial analyst for a paper, a hedge fund, like you are actually a medium and it's your job to transfer the reality on the ground into a reality you can understand. Yeah, but the reality you can understand is not reality. And like, but then because There's like, it's like a, a super unique, uh, bubble. They can't quite allow themselves to say, yeah, but, and so, but one of the greatest trends is like, I mean, at the end of the day, what makes, one of the things that makes a great artist great is they have a vision of what they see in the world, and they stick to that vision. Although, everybody in the world said, but you can't paint like that. You can't write like that. You can't, You can't picture p…
AI assessment note: “Well, no, I mean, I think people, like, I think, I think one of the”
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D 2 · C 2 · P 2 · Cm 2 2.00
Q Is this why you're so committed to the American worker? And even in the recent re-earnings call, you called out you're giving venture returns to retail investors. You've created a really amazing cult Behind Wall Street vets and a lot of retail. So how do you feel about retail?
A Well, I think, you know, I always think there's the economic and there's the psychological and really powerful things are aligned. So, like, you know, I, I, in no way, like, I hate these victimhood BS things. And, and honestly, when you're, almost everyone who believes in that is a mark, whether they realize it or not. But I mean, like, they may not realize it, but you are the mark. And like, uh, And that's frustrating because a lot of these people who believe in that really deserve better, but it's hard to give better if you believe in an ideology that can't work. But, um, I did come from an environment and where it was not expected that I would be co-founder and have a but for role in building arguably one of the greatest companies ever built. And I don't mean that even like in like the half trillion dollar market cap or whatever it is, or I just mean in terms of how it's changed the lives primarily of Americans on the battlefield as investors and also, um, you know, um, on, on, on the factory floor. But the thing is, if you come from nothing, and you're this amorphous, racially dyslexic person from a very specific kind of culture, not even Jewish culture, it's like super acribic, Germanic, left-wing culture, you, Assume the world may not work out for you, and is definitely not looking out for you. Ok, so, what other group of people in this culture have exactly the same vibe?…
AI assessment note: “I just mean in terms of how it's changed the lives primarily of Americans”
