This is mind-blowing to me as an alumnus of Palantir. Palantir is the largest defense company by market cap with 2 percent of the workforce of the #2 company. This was always the promise: an authentic Silicon Valley software company displacing the big SIs. Few realize the

At Palantir, when we were fighting the defense establishment in the mid 2010s, we commissioned an artist to capture our mission on the walls of our office, which we called Minas Tirith. We worked from the closest commercial office to the U.S. Capitol building. This was a

This is why my wife and I don't talk to each other in December. She went to West Point. I went to Navy. One year, on Army-Navy week, I filled her car with navy blue and gold balloons. This, dear friends, is a classy, harmless prank. Another year, she broke into the

don't pad things out make your point as simply as possible and combine it w/style, emotion, and delivery these are the essential skills of leaders in every profession especially founders & CEOs

“Don’t say it isn’t in the catalogue.” Keep looking, you may find it under another name. Be resourceful, take initiative, and figure things out. Great advice from 127 years ago.

nothing is made from scratch & everything builds on humanity

we need AI for action, not just answers I can't get this story out of my head, true or not (because we all know it's happening) Greg has lunch with a 22-year-old Stanford grad. "Smart kid. Perfect resume. Something felt off though." Couldn't remember words. Dependent on AI.

while we're on the topic, people are missing the obvious thing about Jensen's shiny new jacket it's self-exemplifying... i.e. the physical object (the jacket) reflects the core message of the presentation and the object that brings it to life (the superchip) specifically,