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Shyam Sankar

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

And that lets me know, do I need more or not? And I can move on to the next problem, the next problem. If I have to wait three weeks to answer that, you can just see how the whole system just gets gunked up. Nothing actually works. You don't understand that the quality on assembly of doors is not working. And therefore, we're going to have problems.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

And that lets me know, do I need more or not? And I can move on to the next problem, the next problem. If I have to wait three weeks to answer that, you can just see how the whole system just gets gunked up. Nothing actually works. You don't understand that the quality on assembly of doors is not working. And therefore, we're going to have problems.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

And that lets me know, do I need more or not? And I can move on to the next problem, the next problem. If I have to wait three weeks to answer that, you can just see how the whole system just gets gunked up. Nothing actually works. You don't understand that the quality on assembly of doors is not working. And therefore, we're going to have problems.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

And small problems that can be solved become big problems that people will struggle to solve. This breeds a legitimation crisis. The legitimacy of our institutions is based on the fact that they work.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

And small problems that can be solved become big problems that people will struggle to solve. This breeds a legitimation crisis. The legitimacy of our institutions is based on the fact that they work.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

And small problems that can be solved become big problems that people will struggle to solve. This breeds a legitimation crisis. The legitimacy of our institutions is based on the fact that they work.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

How do you spend $11 billion on high-speed rail in California and have 1,600 feet of track that goes nowhere with a government institution that's really proud of how many jobs they created by doing this? You compare that to SpaceX. They've only spent $9.6 billion, and they put more than 300 rockets into orbit. Or we spent $40 billion on rural broadband and have no rural broadband.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

How do you spend $11 billion on high-speed rail in California and have 1,600 feet of track that goes nowhere with a government institution that's really proud of how many jobs they created by doing this? You compare that to SpaceX. They've only spent $9.6 billion, and they put more than 300 rockets into orbit. Or we spent $40 billion on rural broadband and have no rural broadband.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

How do you spend $11 billion on high-speed rail in California and have 1,600 feet of track that goes nowhere with a government institution that's really proud of how many jobs they created by doing this? You compare that to SpaceX. They've only spent $9.6 billion, and they put more than 300 rockets into orbit. Or we spent $40 billion on rural broadband and have no rural broadband.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

We've spent $80 billion on electric chargers, and I think we had like eight. So there's something wrong. Part of the disease that we're facing is this idea that all you need to do is cut a check. Like money will just solve the problem. You know, money enables the founder personalities. Money enables people to do the work. It's the front end of enabling the work. And it's the back end.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

We've spent $80 billion on electric chargers, and I think we had like eight. So there's something wrong. Part of the disease that we're facing is this idea that all you need to do is cut a check. Like money will just solve the problem. You know, money enables the founder personalities. Money enables people to do the work. It's the front end of enabling the work. And it's the back end.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

We've spent $80 billion on electric chargers, and I think we had like eight. So there's something wrong. Part of the disease that we're facing is this idea that all you need to do is cut a check. Like money will just solve the problem. You know, money enables the founder personalities. Money enables people to do the work. It's the front end of enabling the work. And it's the back end.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

It's the reward for having done the work. But someone's got to do the work. And you got to be really good at doing the work. And that's like, that's art. That's craft. You know, it's not a commodity. It's not mindless. You don't just outsource it. And we need people to be proud of that and our efficacy in doing that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

It's the reward for having done the work. But someone's got to do the work. And you got to be really good at doing the work. And that's like, that's art. That's craft. You know, it's not a commodity. It's not mindless. You don't just outsource it. And we need people to be proud of that and our efficacy in doing that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

It's the reward for having done the work. But someone's got to do the work. And you got to be really good at doing the work. And that's like, that's art. That's craft. You know, it's not a commodity. It's not mindless. You don't just outsource it. And we need people to be proud of that and our efficacy in doing that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

You know, you think about I think the counterfactual, if you just say like, we didn't have Hyman Rickover, we had someone else, or we had DATMA back then, and we rotated people in and out of driving the nuclear Navy every two or three years, it wouldn't have worked. And so when we look at so many of things, why does the F-35, we conceived of it in the mid 90s, and it's just kind of working now.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

You know, you think about I think the counterfactual, if you just say like, we didn't have Hyman Rickover, we had someone else, or we had DATMA back then, and we rotated people in and out of driving the nuclear Navy every two or three years, it wouldn't have worked. And so when we look at so many of things, why does the F-35, we conceived of it in the mid 90s, and it's just kind of working now.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

You know, you think about I think the counterfactual, if you just say like, we didn't have Hyman Rickover, we had someone else, or we had DATMA back then, and we rotated people in and out of driving the nuclear Navy every two or three years, it wouldn't have worked. And so when we look at so many of things, why does the F-35, we conceived of it in the mid 90s, and it's just kind of working now.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

Why should it take 30 years when Kelly Johnson could build as a single human at Skunk Works? He's the founder of Skunk Works. He could build 41 airframes in his career. He could build the U2 in 13 months.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

Why should it take 30 years when Kelly Johnson could build as a single human at Skunk Works? He's the founder of Skunk Works. He could build 41 airframes in his career. He could build the U2 in 13 months.