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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

It sounds so simple, but it speaks to the cultural thing, and it's resonant with forward-deployed engineering, right? So how do we leverage this, like, uniquely American perspective on doing these things to just get back to being the best in the world at doing it again?

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

It sounds so simple, but it speaks to the cultural thing, and it's resonant with forward-deployed engineering, right? So how do we leverage this, like, uniquely American perspective on doing these things to just get back to being the best in the world at doing it again?

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

It sounds so simple, but it speaks to the cultural thing, and it's resonant with forward-deployed engineering, right? So how do we leverage this, like, uniquely American perspective on doing these things to just get back to being the best in the world at doing it again?

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

Well, I'm talking to colleagues in the national security community about it to see if there's a way of doing it. I'm also trying to just do it through the front door. Are there companies in particular where we can provide capital to reinvigorate it? The easy place to start is in the US. You have a lot of these mid-tier suppliers They are actually family-owned.

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

Well, I'm talking to colleagues in the national security community about it to see if there's a way of doing it. I'm also trying to just do it through the front door. Are there companies in particular where we can provide capital to reinvigorate it? The easy place to start is in the US. You have a lot of these mid-tier suppliers They are actually family-owned.

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

Well, I'm talking to colleagues in the national security community about it to see if there's a way of doing it. I'm also trying to just do it through the front door. Are there companies in particular where we can provide capital to reinvigorate it? The easy place to start is in the US. You have a lot of these mid-tier suppliers They are actually family-owned.

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

The next generation maybe doesn't want to continue the business. Because the government has been such a promiscuous buyer, so unpredictable in demand, they haven't had the economic reason to invest in capitalizing their facilities to do much more. There have been boom and bust cycles around this.

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

The next generation maybe doesn't want to continue the business. Because the government has been such a promiscuous buyer, so unpredictable in demand, they haven't had the economic reason to invest in capitalizing their facilities to do much more. There have been boom and bust cycles around this.

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

The next generation maybe doesn't want to continue the business. Because the government has been such a promiscuous buyer, so unpredictable in demand, they haven't had the economic reason to invest in capitalizing their facilities to do much more. There have been boom and bust cycles around this.

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

But if you can buy a bunch of these up and aggregate scale, particularly in a thematic line where it's like, actually, these three parts are related, and I could actually make it one part, and I could deliver the part more cheaply, generate more value. He's like, how do you get the math to work out?

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

But if you can buy a bunch of these up and aggregate scale, particularly in a thematic line where it's like, actually, these three parts are related, and I could actually make it one part, and I could deliver the part more cheaply, generate more value. He's like, how do you get the math to work out?

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

But if you can buy a bunch of these up and aggregate scale, particularly in a thematic line where it's like, actually, these three parts are related, and I could actually make it one part, and I could deliver the part more cheaply, generate more value. He's like, how do you get the math to work out?

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

But I think we could just start here and start filling in the holes that we have with capabilities and technologies from allies.

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

But I think we could just start here and start filling in the holes that we have with capabilities and technologies from allies.

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

But I think we could just start here and start filling in the holes that we have with capabilities and technologies from allies.

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

I'll take both sides of that because I feel like I really do. I have a view of it, which is few people should argue with this idea of taking the world's best. But so much of the H-1B program has also been abused to take average.

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

I'll take both sides of that because I feel like I really do. I have a view of it, which is few people should argue with this idea of taking the world's best. But so much of the H-1B program has also been abused to take average.

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

I'll take both sides of that because I feel like I really do. I have a view of it, which is few people should argue with this idea of taking the world's best. But so much of the H-1B program has also been abused to take average.

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

Right, and so then that kind of, you lose the moral high ground on the entirety of the program.

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

Right, and so then that kind of, you lose the moral high ground on the entirety of the program.