Tim Miller

Because on the one hand, you could listen to their description and it sounds like it could be like Salesforce.

It could just be like a software platform.

Yeah.

But then, you know, and your opening anecdote, you talk about how Palantir was brought in during the Biden administration to help with the Afghanistan evacuation.

And as you write about it, it's like, I don't know, right in front of me, I think it was like 150 staffers from Palantir evacuated.

went into the Pentagon and into the White House and were like working side by side with government employees.

So, I mean, to me, that's more than just like offering a software product.

Oh, no, it's more than that.

And that's always been kind of the rap on Palantir is that, you know, it's a technology company, but there's also a strong consultancy aspect to it.

Less so nowadays, but it's certainly in a case like that when basically, you know, Biden had ordered, you know,

withdrawal and then expediting withdrawal.

And so they to put that into effect required not just the technology, but a lot of hands on help building out these virtual pipelines to merge data between government agencies.

So they still do that sort of stuff.

I mean, they would they call it a surge where they put a lot of people on a problem.

And a lot of their work begins in moments of crisis.

So that's that's what they do.

It is very powerful technology, but sometimes it also needs the help of their what they call forward deployed engineers.

So a combination of man and machine, if you will.

I thought the Afghanistan example was interesting because, you know, Biden took a lot of heat for the way that that withdrawal was handled, including here on this podcast.

And Palantir kind of came out scot free on that, like still with their aura.