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That's why Palantir was able to be such a big company. Like no one wants to work with Palantir when you show up, when you're like a bunch of 22, 23 year old kids from Silicon Valley. You didn't serve in the military. You're not from their culture. You're not, you haven't hired like 22 generals to your company. Like they'd much rather work with the guys they know. So the only way you're going to win is you have to be like 10 times better. It's the only way you're going to be able to do it, but yo
the high level goal of Palantir was to take the top technology cultures of Silicon Valley and apply it to the most important problems in Washington DC and the East coast institutions. And so the, the idea, the idea was that there's like this a hundred billion dollars plus being spent on various types of data and services around important problems with, you know, analysts and intelligence and defense world. That the problem's there as well as for big companies. And we wanted to be able to say, ok
I started Palantir 18 years ago with my roommate from college. And then, uh, there were a couple other, a few other key people as co-founders, obviously Peter Thiel. Uh, we brought in Alex Karp. You know, Alex was pretending to be the CEO at first for us, cause we needed an adult in the room. And then it turned out he was actually a good CEO. He was a philosopher before that. So pretty, pretty cool background. He had a lot of wisdom about people and institutions. The rest of us were computer sci