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20VC: Palantir CTO on The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence, The Danger of Defence Spending at Historic Lows, How Elections and Wars Change Government Defence Buying & Why Budgets are Anti-Creative with Shyam Sankar

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

CHAPTER

Foundations of Palantir: A Journey in Tech and Security

This chapter recounts the speaker's transition from a Silicon Valley start-up to the early days of Palantir, emphasizing their motivations shaped by major global events. It explores the challenges of building a mission-driven technology firm focused on national security, highlighting the struggles with customer engagement and software development in classified environments.

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