Invest Like the Best
Shyam Sankar - Celebrating Heretics - [Invest Like the Best, EP.462]
March 10, 20261h 21m · 16,250 words
Show notes
My guest today is Shyam Sankar, the CTO of Palantir Technologies. In this conversation, we explore the ideas that shape how Shyam thinks about technology, talent, and national power. We discuss the origins of Palantir’s forward-deployed engineering model and the lessons he learned from Alex Karp about identifying people's "superpowers".
Highlighted moments
Nothing that went through the machine delivered anything. I think all change comes from these heretics, and they only later become heroes.
“they have the steering wheel and they're diligently trying to steer the steering wheel what they don't understand is it's a jungle cruise prop from Disneyland it's not connected to anything”
“you can either be somebody or you can do something but you can't really have both”
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