Katherine Boyle

And I'm very grateful for that because it's like, she's right.

You're learning a new culture.

You were learning how to operate inside of an ecosystem that's nothing like what you've experienced before.

And when you understand it, then you can start being, you know, kind of yourself.

You can start being a little more flamboyant when you're accepted, when people accept you as one of their own.

But when you're learning the culture, like, you're there to listen and you're there to work your ass off.

And that's kind of what I did.

And it was an incredible gift to be able to see how companies that are, you know, so iconic that no one believed in.

Even 2015, SpaceX was still seen as, oh, well, how big can that company become?

It wasn't what it is today.

And so to see people, how they make bets on the future and sort of the philosophy of how they take bets on the future, like that completely transformed and sort of catapulted me into venture capital.

Well, so when I left business school and I ended up working at another venture capital firm, that was right when Palmer and Trey and Brian and the guys were founding Anduril.

And so I had the luxury of spending a year with these people, like really understanding how well they understood the mission, understanding like how valuable Palantir talent is to people who've actually worked with the government and sort of that model.

So I was probably six months into the job at this new fund, and again, lowest on the totem pole.

Lowest again?

Oh, yeah, because you come out of school, and then you're the junior associate who's there to take notes, write memos.

You're there to learn the trade.

It's an apprentice job.

You can ask questions, but you're there to source, too.

You're also there to find companies and to be the first person to touch a company and bring it in.