Tim Miller
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's not monitoring how Airbus is using it.
It's the clients who use it, as with any other software program.
I'm going to dig in some of that and some of the controversies and things that people, the concerns people have about it.
But the book also gets into the founder, CEO, really, Alex Karp.
The founder, people always say it's like Peter Thiel's Palantir.
So let's start with that.
I mean, he was the founder.
It was his idea.
But like, is he in board meetings?
Are him and Alex talking?
Like, what's his relationship with the company at this point?
Yeah, no, he's a co-founder.
The idea for Palantir did originate with him.
It grew out of PayPal.
He had this idea after 9-11 that the anti-fraud algorithms that PayPal had developed could possibly be reconfigured to help the US government in the war on terrorism.
Thiel had the idea for this.
He and Karp were classmates at Stanford Law School.
They reconnected after Karp went off to Germany to pursue a doctorate.
Karp came back to the Bay Area.
That's when they reconnected with Thiel.