Trae (Trey) Stephens

They work with the Department of Homeland Security, with the Pentagon.

They're kind of all over the place.

But at the time, they had funded a work program for Palantir in a few federal intelligence agencies.

And they were doing a roadshow and they gave a demo that I was at.

And I'm like, oh crap, this would literally save me like 20% of the time that I spend every week doing searches in these databases.

Because basically the way that I would do it is,

There are 12 different databases.

You go into each one of them, you write a really complex query, and then it would just be running in the background.

It's like, all right, well, I'm going to go get a cup of coffee, go talk to a couple of people and come back and hope that I have an exported CSV file that I can merge into an Excel spreadsheet and run concatenate functions.

Try to you know narrow it down But in Palantir it was like bringing Google to that siloed intelligence infrastructure where you could just run the search once and it would just return everything instantly and so in its simplest form it would have saved me probably a day of work every week and

But, you know, there was no requirement, as you're familiar.

There was no requirement.

There was no funding to, you know, build anything like this.

And so it was really hard to get it brought into the door.

So I switched over to the private sector and worked at Palantir instead.

So what, I mean, what...

Yeah, I mean, the misconceptions around Palantir are crazy.

I mean, they're not bringing any data.

The data belongs to the customer.

It's just architecture for data management.