Shyam Sankar

8 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 17, 2025 by Alex Dhillon · said 20 times in 11 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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2025 15 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
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Everything said about Shyam Sankar, oldest first

Apr 17, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Dhillon: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar is an Outtake AI angel investor
“Worked directly for the pounder CTO, Shamsankar. Absolute goat. A shout out to him. Also one of our angel investors.”
Alex Dhillon Apr 17, 2025 ▶ 0:54 This Company is Changing Cybersecurity | Alex Dhillon on TBPN April 10th
Apr 28, 2025 negative
Insight
Sankar: Underreporting cyber warfare breeds defeatist acceptance of critical vulnerabilities
“Well, one of the most devastating consequences of it being so kind of below the waterline, something we don't want to talk about, is the normalization of, like, what can you do about it? A sort of nihilism and acceptance a pessimism that anything can be done a…”
Shyam Sankar Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 19:45 How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Palantir Encourages Every Employee to Tell Leadership Off to Their Face
“I always end the AMA by reminding people that Palantir is a flat place. What does flatness even mean? Well, to me, it means that every single employee is willing to tell me to fuck off to my face, and I am all say fuck off in unison out loud at the very end. I…”
Shyam Sankar Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 9:03 How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Sankar: Open AI models have converged with and surpassed closed models
“If you look at both open and closed models over time, you know, the ELOs are just up and to the right. The open ones have converged and even in some cases surpassed closed models.”
Shyam Sankar Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 4:04 How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
Apr 28, 2025 negative
Insight
Sankar: Linear, mapped career paths retard professional growth
“So don't sell out for the opioid of a linear career progression with a clearly mapped out path. I'm pretty sure that's retarding.”
Shyam Sankar Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 27:18 How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
Apr 28, 2025
Insight
Sankar: Major public projects depend on exceptional individual champions
“These projects working or not come down to a handful of really exceptional individuals being present, taking ownership and leading the way.”
Shyam Sankar Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 12:54 How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
Apr 28, 2025 neutral
Insight
Sankar: Enterprises cannot assume foundation models will exist in perpetuity
“And so if you've built an entire enterprise that runs, assuming some model is going to exist in perpetuity, that's probably not going to work out that well for you. So you're going to have to have this constant ability to evaluate and, Run these models in para…”
Shyam Sankar Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 4:55 How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
Apr 28, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Frontier AI Labs Build Apps Because Raw APIs Are Bad Business
“And you even see that in the frontier model companies where they're expanding further and further into the app stack because they realize that selling you a raw API is probably going to be a raw business.”
Shyam Sankar Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 4:18 How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
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