Quinn Slobodian

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708 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Jun

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And I'm going to out-compete them on a competitive tender and

And I'm going to sue you to make you give it to me as a more competitive offer.

And that's what happens.

And the federal government says, you got us.

And who uses that exact lawsuit the next year?

Palantir.

Palantir gets its first contract.

Wait, this is all 2002, 2003.

Yep.

It's that early.

Really?

That's when it starts.

So that's...

Right.

That's what I wanted to get to is that, you know, that might look like just cutthroat, you know, whatever, profiteering.

But in fact, they did then lower the cost of putting mass in orbit by over 90% over the next 20 years.

A huge expansion of the U.S.

control of this new sector of so-called new space or the space economy.

Interestingly enough, just six years later, Barack Obama comes into office.

This is funny talking to you about this because I was watching you talk about this as it was happening.

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