Joe Lonsdale

So Palantir today is different than Palantir then. Palantir then was all about organizing this information to extend human intelligence into this massive amount of data. Because there's no way that any single human is going to be able to keep 5,000, 20,000 databases of stuff in different formats in their mind at a time.

So you're going to have to organize it in a way you can interact with it, ask questions, preserve your investigations, share with others, collaborate. So that's a problem. Now it turns out that organizing all this information in all these ways, is very powerful to then apply AI on top of it.

So you're going to have to organize it in a way you can interact with it, ask questions, preserve your investigations, share with others, collaborate. So that's a problem. Now it turns out that organizing all this information in all these ways, is very powerful to then apply AI on top of it.

So you're going to have to organize it in a way you can interact with it, ask questions, preserve your investigations, share with others, collaborate. So that's a problem. Now it turns out that organizing all this information in all these ways, is very powerful to then apply AI on top of it.

As AI has gotten to be more advanced, there are now a lot more predictive, a lot more magical AI-like things that it could do thanks to that. Palantir was lucky in a way to have a top technology culture and to be solving these data organization ontology workflow problems, we call them, that when AI came along, it was really powerful to add AI to it and go even faster.

As AI has gotten to be more advanced, there are now a lot more predictive, a lot more magical AI-like things that it could do thanks to that. Palantir was lucky in a way to have a top technology culture and to be solving these data organization ontology workflow problems, we call them, that when AI came along, it was really powerful to add AI to it and go even faster.

As AI has gotten to be more advanced, there are now a lot more predictive, a lot more magical AI-like things that it could do thanks to that. Palantir was lucky in a way to have a top technology culture and to be solving these data organization ontology workflow problems, we call them, that when AI came along, it was really powerful to add AI to it and go even faster.

To be able to take all the data and figure that out. We first started working with a bunch of the special forces groups and we really helped them figure out some of those hard problems and partnered with some really smart guys that taught us, here's the data you should be looking at. We brought it together with our partnership and did it.

To be able to take all the data and figure that out. We first started working with a bunch of the special forces groups and we really helped them figure out some of those hard problems and partnered with some really smart guys that taught us, here's the data you should be looking at. We brought it together with our partnership and did it.

To be able to take all the data and figure that out. We first started working with a bunch of the special forces groups and we really helped them figure out some of those hard problems and partnered with some really smart guys that taught us, here's the data you should be looking at. We brought it together with our partnership and did it.

And then the Army Brigade said, well, we need this too, because they needed it badly. And they couldn't pay for it, of course, because they have some giant bureaucratic process. We just gave it to them. We said, just show us the lives you're saving. That's all we want to see. That's really inspiring to our engineers. And they started showing us the lives they were saving.

And then the Army Brigade said, well, we need this too, because they needed it badly. And they couldn't pay for it, of course, because they have some giant bureaucratic process. We just gave it to them. We said, just show us the lives you're saving. That's all we want to see. That's really inspiring to our engineers. And they started showing us the lives they were saving.

And then the Army Brigade said, well, we need this too, because they needed it badly. And they couldn't pay for it, of course, because they have some giant bureaucratic process. We just gave it to them. We said, just show us the lives you're saving. That's all we want to see. That's really inspiring to our engineers. And they started showing us the lives they were saving.

And then it came up for bid. It's called the Defense Ground Control System, DSIGS, remember? It was called back then, I remember. And of course, some general gave it to his friend for like $5 billion at some other company. And everyone protested, like, we're using Palantir. We don't want to wait years for this giant contract. So we ended up suing the government.

And then it came up for bid. It's called the Defense Ground Control System, DSIGS, remember? It was called back then, I remember. And of course, some general gave it to his friend for like $5 billion at some other company. And everyone protested, like, we're using Palantir. We don't want to wait years for this giant contract. So we ended up suing the government.

And then it came up for bid. It's called the Defense Ground Control System, DSIGS, remember? It was called back then, I remember. And of course, some general gave it to his friend for like $5 billion at some other company. And everyone protested, like, we're using Palantir. We don't want to wait years for this giant contract. So we ended up suing the government.

And I never sue anyone, but Palantir had to sue because they purposely just gave it to their friends, and we won. And it took years, but they eventually used us. You know what was shocking to me?

And I never sue anyone, but Palantir had to sue because they purposely just gave it to their friends, and we won. And it took years, but they eventually used us. You know what was shocking to me?

And I never sue anyone, but Palantir had to sue because they purposely just gave it to their friends, and we won. And it took years, but they eventually used us. You know what was shocking to me?

is when they finally eventually used Palantir, I'd met a bunch of the guys, and they all said, it's the best thing ever, it's amazing, we thought you guys were fake, we thought you guys were liars, because the people who were competing against us had just talked shit about us for years. But we finally got in and made it work. Man, that had to be... That had to be pretty enraging, too.