Michael Steinberger
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509 appearances
6 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 3 Jul
Michael Steinberger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Daily · Inside the Tech Company Powering Trump’s Most Controversial Policies · 16 Dec 2025
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When 9-11 happens.
Thiel wonders if the attack could have been prevented had government agencies been able to more readily share information with one another.
The FBI had information.
The CIA had information.
If that information had been pooled, it's possible the attack could have been prevented.
The 9-11 Commission, when it issued its final report in 2004, said that there had been a failure to connect the dots, in part because information was siloed.
And this is the idea that gives rise to Palantir.
Thiel believed he could create a company that would help intelligence analysts connect the dots, find the needles in the haystack, and prevent future attacks.
And it's around this time that Karp resurfaces in the Bay Area.
He's back from Germany, and he and Thiel reunite.
Thiel asks Karp to help him raise some money for Palantir.
This company's trying to get off the ground.
Thiel interviews a couple of people for the CEO position, but then he and the other people involved in founding Palantir realized Karp is probably the right guy for the job.
No, he's not.
I mean, in some ways, he's a very unlikely choice, and he admitted as much to me.
He's got no background in business, no training in computer science, and of course he's coming from a left-wing household, and now he's going to be working for a company that's at the nexus of technology in the national security state.
He is, on paper, a very unlikely fit, and yet...
He is very passionate.
I mean, the moment he gets involved, he is very passionate about what Palantir is doing.
Well, Palantir is this rare bird, and it's a very ideological company.
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