Tim Miller

Palantir software helps them bring order to this chaos, if you will.

and then helps them find answers in the data.

Users run queries and the software finds patterns, correlations, connections, trends in the data.

So you can think of it almost as a digital detective board in some sense.

And Palantir has its roots in the war on terrorism.

And it was created essentially to help the US government find terrorists.

So that's very much a digital detective board.

Very powerful technology pulls in a lot of data very quickly and generates answers very quickly.

So that's, in a nutshell, what Palantir does.

You talked about how it came out of the war on terror, which I guess I realized, but the degree to which that is the company's

You know, origin where you're writing that how I candidates initially, including just kind of like engineers and people that were behind the scenes, had to demonstrate to the founders that they had a passion for defending Western civilization and killing terrorists.

Like that was like part of the original deal.

Yeah, like if they detected in any job candidates a kind of desire to just collect lots of stock options and get rich quickly, if they sensed that they were just in it to make money or were squeamish about the company's mission, about killing terrorists, they would not get the job there.

So if you were going to be a successful candidate at Palantir, you had to show great enthusiasm for the mission, which was

To help the U.S.

in the war on terrorism and more broadly to defend the United States and the West.

That was the company's mission.

That's what they told themselves from the start.

So you mentioned it's kind of like a digital detective board.

I'm still trying to kind of figure out exactly the scope and scale of what they're offering.