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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

So your ability to communicate securely and to the extent anyone has been storing historical encrypted communications, their ability to decrypt that will be near instantaneous. So it has huge implications there. But then for your ability going forward now, you're going to have to adopt that so you have quantum proof. quantum encryption that works.

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

But then I think there's even more implications beyond that. The encryption is the first thing that we have to worry about. The next thing is, how are we going to employ this for decision advantage? How close are we to that? Well, that's kind of an open question.

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

But then I think there's even more implications beyond that. The encryption is the first thing that we have to worry about. The next thing is, how are we going to employ this for decision advantage? How close are we to that? Well, that's kind of an open question.

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

But then I think there's even more implications beyond that. The encryption is the first thing that we have to worry about. The next thing is, how are we going to employ this for decision advantage? How close are we to that? Well, that's kind of an open question.

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

I think really smart people I know keep saying we're really close, but really smart people in the 60s thought we were 10 years away from AI. We'll have to see.

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

I think really smart people I know keep saying we're really close, but really smart people in the 60s thought we were 10 years away from AI. We'll have to see.

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

I think really smart people I know keep saying we're really close, but really smart people in the 60s thought we were 10 years away from AI. We'll have to see.

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

My father did. Your father did. Yeah. So my father was the last of nine children in a single, he grew up, he was born in a single room mud hut in the south of India. And his siblings all helped him get to college. And India had its own version, still does, have its own version of DEI there. So he was not allowed, he's a very smart man, but he wasn't allowed to go to med school.

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

My father did. Your father did. Yeah. So my father was the last of nine children in a single, he grew up, he was born in a single room mud hut in the south of India. And his siblings all helped him get to college. And India had its own version, still does, have its own version of DEI there. So he was not allowed, he's a very smart man, but he wasn't allowed to go to med school.

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

My father did. Your father did. Yeah. So my father was the last of nine children in a single, he grew up, he was born in a single room mud hut in the south of India. And his siblings all helped him get to college. And India had its own version, still does, have its own version of DEI there. So he was not allowed, he's a very smart man, but he wasn't allowed to go to med school.

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

He couldn't get a slot, but he became a pharmacist. That's like the next best thing for him. And he was sleeping, after he graduated from pharmacy school, he was sleeping literally under the kitchen table of one of his brothers. And his sister-in-law, brother's wife, got kind of tired of having him around the house, so found him a job in Nigeria. He was 23 at the time.

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

He couldn't get a slot, but he became a pharmacist. That's like the next best thing for him. And he was sleeping, after he graduated from pharmacy school, he was sleeping literally under the kitchen table of one of his brothers. And his sister-in-law, brother's wife, got kind of tired of having him around the house, so found him a job in Nigeria. He was 23 at the time.

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

He couldn't get a slot, but he became a pharmacist. That's like the next best thing for him. And he was sleeping, after he graduated from pharmacy school, he was sleeping literally under the kitchen table of one of his brothers. And his sister-in-law, brother's wife, got kind of tired of having him around the house, so found him a job in Nigeria. He was 23 at the time.

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

And so he, you know, young man, excited about adventure. He went to Nigeria as a pharmacist to build the first pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in all of Africa. Until then, all the drugs were imported. And so he did really well for himself at a very young age. I was probably born seven years after he'd been living in Nigeria. My mom went back to India to have me.

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

And so he, you know, young man, excited about adventure. He went to Nigeria as a pharmacist to build the first pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in all of Africa. Until then, all the drugs were imported. And so he did really well for himself at a very young age. I was probably born seven years after he'd been living in Nigeria. My mom went back to India to have me.

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

And so he, you know, young man, excited about adventure. He went to Nigeria as a pharmacist to build the first pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in all of Africa. Until then, all the drugs were imported. And so he did really well for himself at a very young age. I was probably born seven years after he'd been living in Nigeria. My mom went back to India to have me.

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

And then I came back to Nigeria as soon as I was old enough to travel. So really, my first three or so years of my life, I was in Nigeria. But the reason that came to an end, we had a horrible armed robbery in the house, which we lived across the street from the manufacturing facility. where all of the cash was kept from the operation.

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

And then I came back to Nigeria as soon as I was old enough to travel. So really, my first three or so years of my life, I was in Nigeria. But the reason that came to an end, we had a horrible armed robbery in the house, which we lived across the street from the manufacturing facility. where all of the cash was kept from the operation.

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

And then I came back to Nigeria as soon as I was old enough to travel. So really, my first three or so years of my life, I was in Nigeria. But the reason that came to an end, we had a horrible armed robbery in the house, which we lived across the street from the manufacturing facility. where all of the cash was kept from the operation.

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

And so it was a little bit of an inside job of people who worked there who did this. They decapitated the dog. They pistol-whipped dad. They threatened to execute him. They threatened my mom. I was a child, and really, I was just excited to have visitors. You can't control a child. I was just excited to have visitors in the middle of the night.