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SPEAKER_31: They only had at the time about 25, 30 engineers. I came up with some ideas, starting with three silos, narrowed it to advertising, health care and finance. I got rid of the two of them quickly because finance was a no brainer. The whole world had gone under with the mortgage crisis. And Palantir actually had an algorithm that you could plug an address of a house into it. And they did this after I asked them to, you could plug an address of a house and it scraped a million data point
he said, I want you to help set up a commercial business.
we are in business with the US government, and they don't pay very well.
He put a ton of his own money into Palantir. He had no investors. He had a small investment from DARPA.
And then in the middle of 92, I called cold Bill Gates. And it wasn't the Microsoft of today. It was a small company and I went up and met with Bill and then he introduced, we talked for four hours about where my business and his business could converge. And the only thing I'll tell you is neither of us had any idea, but it was the start of a discussion. Bill introduced me to a man named Nathan Mirvold, who I'm still friendly with today, who was the first CTO of Microsoft. And I remember being a