Palantir, every mention
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every year anyone Harj Taggar 20Garry Tan 14Bob McGrew 13Jared Friedman 9Diana Hu 7Satya Nadella 2Sam Altman 1Brad Flora 1Alexandr Wang 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Palantir comes up
Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:23 Alexandr Wang I think his first internship was at Palantir, and, um, and he, you know, he was kind of this, um, influence for me, and so after I finished, uh, high school, I ended up working at Quora, um, here in Silicon Valley, and then, um, I worked…
How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator
Startup Advice: AI GTM, Pivoting & How To Hire · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:01 Brad Flora Enterprise AI plays like Viva or Palantir can take time.
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:36 Harj Taggar Bob was an early engineer at PayPal, an early executive at Palantir, and was recently chief research officer at OpenAI, where he led the development of ChatGPT, GPT-IV, and the O-One reasoning model.
- ▶ 1:31 Jared Friedman And instead, what all of these AI started founders wanted to talk to you about was the Palantir four deployed engineer model.
- ▶ 3:10 Jared Friedman To go all the way back to the beginning, you were there at Palantir when this whole model that is now like 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:18 Harj Taggar I feel like sales as product discovery is a concept that's not new, certainly around before Palantir, but 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:42 Jared Friedman Bob, can you lay out sort of exactly how the FDU bottle works at Palantir?
- ▶ 11:41 Diana Hu How did Palantir build this early team? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:42 Bob McGrew And I think, you know, if you, if you go back to 20 15 and you talk to people about Palantir, maybe you would hear two things. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:14 Bob McGrew I think on the engineering side, uh, it actually, you know, it, it feels my, my job on the, as an engineer was actually not so bad because early on in the early days of Palantir, you know, we were, you know, doing this founder led… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:27 Harj Taggar I mean, did that create any sort of cultural tension at Palantir itself?
- ▶ 24:08 Harj Taggar Especially because I feel like even as Palantir became successful and the FTE model became more known, it was still seen as, well, you, that's a one-off 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:00 Jared Friedman Since you see a lot of people trying to apply the FTE model now to their new startups, including a lot of people who didn't work at Palantir and started doing it like second or third hand, what are ways you see people getting it wrong or… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:59 Diana Hu How did Palantir get that executive buy-in? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:50 Harj Taggar Jared pointed out earlier that the, I think this, the Palantir Forward deployed engineer model is not that different to sort of like classic YC advice around doing things that don't scale.
- ▶ 41:26 Bob McGrew So, you know, in the early days of Palantir, we actually had one demo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:42 Harj Taggar Obviously, I mean, Monster Success for Palantir, they're now a super big company, huge organization. 3 times in the scene
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:01 Satya Nadella Now, when I look at even a lot of the AI startups, when I talk to them, everyone has now, you know, you worked at Palantir, so you know this, uh, everyone has forward deployment engineers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:06 Garry Tan Um, I actually did learn how to, uh, do product management and project management as a PM on Windows Mobile, and, uh, when I was employee number 10 at Palantir, I taught them, uh, actually how to run a project, zero bug bounds, and, you… 2 times in the scene
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:31 Harj Taggar That's like a term that traces back to Palantir, and since you were early at Palantir, maybe tell us a little bit about how did forward-deployed engineer become a thing at Palantir, and what can founders learn from it now? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:34 Garry Tan Uh, whereas if you put an engineer in there, and you give them, uh, you know, uh, Palantir Foundry, which is what they now call sort of their core, uh, data viz and data mining suites, instead of the next meeting being reviewing 50 pages of
- ▶ 23:42 Diana Hu Maybe with Palantir would have taken a bit longer and a team of engineers. 2 times in the scene
Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:07 Bob McGrew When I left Palantir, I wanted to start a company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:13 Bob McGrew You don't want to be, unless you have to, you don't want to be like Palantir taking three years to get to market.
- ▶ 21:11 Garry Tan What you just said really reminds me of our days at Palantir, actually, where, ah, you know, one of the core missions that, you know, Palantir started with, really, is this idea that, you know, the technology's already here, it's just not… 6 times in the scene
Pitch Practice with Paul Buchheit and Sam Altman at Startup School SV 2016 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:55 Sam Altman This is just like Palantir, how PayPal dealt with fraud.