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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

What usually happens is at first you just laugh at them. So we're in this phase of like, well, it's never gonna work. You know, the fish is in water. The fish doesn't understand what could possibly be outside the water. So, you know, yeah, for the utility company and the rules they live by and the bureaucracy they've ensconced themselves in, it is never gonna work.

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

What usually happens is at first you just laugh at them. So we're in this phase of like, well, it's never gonna work. You know, the fish is in water. The fish doesn't understand what could possibly be outside the water. So, you know, yeah, for the utility company and the rules they live by and the bureaucracy they've ensconced themselves in, it is never gonna work.

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

What usually happens is at first you just laugh at them. So we're in this phase of like, well, it's never gonna work. You know, the fish is in water. The fish doesn't understand what could possibly be outside the water. So, you know, yeah, for the utility company and the rules they live by and the bureaucracy they've ensconced themselves in, it is never gonna work.

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

They couldn't do it today, you know, but these guys are throwing away the rule book. They're not gonna follow the same rules and subject themselves to the same bureaucracy and have the same slow decision-making process. They're gonna do it differently. And once this starts working, they're going to have to respond. So three of the five Andral co-founders worked for me.

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

They couldn't do it today, you know, but these guys are throwing away the rule book. They're not gonna follow the same rules and subject themselves to the same bureaucracy and have the same slow decision-making process. They're gonna do it differently. And once this starts working, they're going to have to respond. So three of the five Andral co-founders worked for me.

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

They couldn't do it today, you know, but these guys are throwing away the rule book. They're not gonna follow the same rules and subject themselves to the same bureaucracy and have the same slow decision-making process. They're gonna do it differently. And once this starts working, they're going to have to respond. So three of the five Andral co-founders worked for me.

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

And they are world-class talent. In my interaction with some of the primes, the thing they love to say is something like, Andral's like the Theranos of defense. Andral's a fraud. And I was really scratching my head. It's like, why do they believe this? It's so obviously not true, just to be 100% clear. It's like, obviously not true. These guys are crushing it.

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

And they are world-class talent. In my interaction with some of the primes, the thing they love to say is something like, Andral's like the Theranos of defense. Andral's a fraud. And I was really scratching my head. It's like, why do they believe this? It's so obviously not true, just to be 100% clear. It's like, obviously not true. These guys are crushing it.

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

And they are world-class talent. In my interaction with some of the primes, the thing they love to say is something like, Andral's like the Theranos of defense. Andral's a fraud. And I was really scratching my head. It's like, why do they believe this? It's so obviously not true, just to be 100% clear. It's like, obviously not true. These guys are crushing it.

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

And my conclusion was it's because they can't imagine of a different way of doing it. Therefore, if there's a company doing it a different way, it must be a fraud. It can't work. So as Andrew starts to just keep crushing it out there, they will realize there's a different way. They will have to realize there's a different way of doing it. They'll have to respond to these things.

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

And my conclusion was it's because they can't imagine of a different way of doing it. Therefore, if there's a company doing it a different way, it must be a fraud. It can't work. So as Andrew starts to just keep crushing it out there, they will realize there's a different way. They will have to realize there's a different way of doing it. They'll have to respond to these things.

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

And my conclusion was it's because they can't imagine of a different way of doing it. Therefore, if there's a company doing it a different way, it must be a fraud. It can't work. So as Andrew starts to just keep crushing it out there, they will realize there's a different way. They will have to realize there's a different way of doing it. They'll have to respond to these things.

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

And that's the reinvention stimulus that the economy needs.

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

And that's the reinvention stimulus that the economy needs.

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

And that's the reinvention stimulus that the economy needs.

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

I think it both looks exactly like the past and completely different. So the part that's exactly like the past is I think that the kind of fundamentals of the OODA loop, that it is about decision advantage and speed, is the same thing. Those principles are not changing. The most valuable application of technology then is going to be towards that end. So why is lethal autonomy so valuable?

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

I think it both looks exactly like the past and completely different. So the part that's exactly like the past is I think that the kind of fundamentals of the OODA loop, that it is about decision advantage and speed, is the same thing. Those principles are not changing. The most valuable application of technology then is going to be towards that end. So why is lethal autonomy so valuable?

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

I think it both looks exactly like the past and completely different. So the part that's exactly like the past is I think that the kind of fundamentals of the OODA loop, that it is about decision advantage and speed, is the same thing. Those principles are not changing. The most valuable application of technology then is going to be towards that end. So why is lethal autonomy so valuable?

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

You could say we've had that for a while. If you're flying in a fighter jet, it is your computer that is telling you that there is an enemy on your radar that you can't see. You're trusting the computer. That sounds like autonomy to me.

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

You could say we've had that for a while. If you're flying in a fighter jet, it is your computer that is telling you that there is an enemy on your radar that you can't see. You're trusting the computer. That sounds like autonomy to me.