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Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator

The Social Radars

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How I Found Palantir

Palantir was meant to help three-letter agencies catch Osama bin Laden or help with surveillance of people. Initially, Palantir wanted to work on some stuff I didn't really want to work on. Later they came and said, hey, could you work on hedge fund software? And I was like, oh, okay. Well, political stuff and things that sort of affect, like, three- letter agencies. But if it's about markets, you know, macroeconomics and helping hedge funds,. You know, I think I can build software for that.

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