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“The government was spending $38 billion a year gathering data looking at the data failing to stop the terrorists but also abusing our civil liberties. So it was a mess.”
“Why was Palanteer started? Protect the West against Islamist terrorists. That's truly the mission.”
“One of my favorite signs on the old defense secretary of Romansville. He had a sign on his desk and it said if nobody is angry you, you might not be doing much. You know, you do you subscribe to that? Oh, totally.”
“And then recently you put I think some 11.8 million into a drone company in Nigeria. Well, that's random. I run a big venture capital.”
“Actually, it's a good question. People don't ask. So Palencer, we had a whole playbook when we started that, you know, Paler hired a lot of the top talent. And so you'd have your fellows, you'd have your spies, you have your advisers... you just have people who are young, smart, technical people who are social and they're there and they're mapping it out. They're helping you meet the right people.”
“An entrepreneur needs to have opinions. And my am entrepreneur needs to needs to be able to say, 'Here's my hypothesis about the world. Here's why I'm right.' Usually they want to have some chip on their shoulder, some something they're trying to prove. They they have to be someone you can tell they're ambitious.”
“I mean these these guys were were just very opinionated, very interested, very ambitious, very fast. No tolerance for things that are broken. You fix it right away. Uh you know, you work through the problems.”
“It became really obvious to us that Silicon Valley, Google, PayPal, all these things that were going on out there were just way ahead technically of where the government was at that point. This was a problem because the government was spending $38 billion a year gathering data, looking at the data, failing to stop the terrorists but also abusing our civil liberties.”
“We got turned down by everyone. Turned down by Excel, by Sequoia. The guy at Kleiner Perkins at the time... they're laughing us out of the room basically. All the investors were telling us you guys are crazy. No one does this. Why are you doing this? It's not possible.”
“Turned down by Excel, by Sequoia. The guy at Kleiner Perkins at the time and they're a great firm. I admire them very much. But the guy at the time who's no longer there, he started laughing at us on the phone cuz Alex didn't have a technical degree.”
“More importantly we saved the government billions of dollars versus what they were doing. I mean you literally had things going on the DHS guys. Cuz I remember there was some Unicist thing where it was like $3 billion to integrate all the data and we came and we showed them we could have done the same thing for them out of the box in a month.”
“We worked with all sorts of amazing groups in the government alongside them with the technology and with the ability and we help protect civil liberties and make sure the government watchers are being watched.”
“After the fact all the very best guys chose a low salary. All the very best guys choose a low salary because they want to they want they want to get in the game. They want to be part of the mission.”
“Now the top AI companies it's like multi-million dollar signing bonuses for... So today, it's not uncommon for a young guy to get a $5 million signing bonus.”
“Now there's like hundreds of other firms going after these contests, sponsoring these contests. They all know who these kids are. The game's gotten harder.”
“It's all about chicken and egg you got to start with the best people then the other best people that's how palenteer really did it. We started with a bunch of the best guys the other ones want to be with them want to learn from them.”
“It's all about chicken and egg you got to start with the best people then the other best people that's how Palantir really did it we started with a bunch of the best guys the other ones want to be with them want to learn from them so it's it's you got to have a nucleus you start with.”