Joe Lonsdale

No surprise, it was a place you wanted to be.

They actually rejected me my freshman year, but they let me in my sophomore year to go help them.

Not everyone, but I think for me, it was where I noticed a lot of the smartest, most interesting people go in there.

So it was when I was trying to find it.

No, no, it wasn't.

Well, I mean, I was a computer scientist.

I was already ahead.

I'd already done most of the undergrad work before I got there, which is normal nowadays.

And so I met a lot of the smartest other computer scientists, and they were all trying to go work there.

And their smartest friends were working there.

And then I was the editor of the Stanford Review, which Peter had started, so I met people that way too through it.

This is the most critical thing to do for these businesses.

So Peter was very good at that.

That's what we spend a lot of our time on now.

I'm flying up to see all the kids at Harvard and MIT this week.

We spend a lot of time on this.

Actually, it's a good question people don't ask.

So Palantir, we had a whole playbook when we started that, you know, Palantir hired a lot of the top talent.

And so you'd have, you'd have your, your fellows, you'd have your spies, you have your advisors, you have all these like spies, these young men and women on your team.

And they're like talented computer scientists and they help you map out who the other best people are and they help you throw parties and they,