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Shyam Sankar
Chief technology officer & executive vice president, Palantir
Runs Palantir's technology as CTO, having joined as employee 13 and pioneered the forward-deployed engineering model.
PalantirReal Alpha has cut 4 moments of Shyam Sankar (Chief technology officer & executive vice president, Palantir) talking, from an interview on The Shawn Ryan Show published Apr 10, 2025.
What Shyam Sankar said
The Shawn Ryan Show · Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare | SRS #190
4 moments · 16 min
- 2:11:36
AI helps insurers price more of the business they want
“AIG just discussed at their investor day earlier this week, how they've used 85 AI agents built in Palantir to automate their insurance underwriting.”
at 2:12:41 - 1:21:35
Deterrence depends on the ability to produce weapons
“The deterrent is your ability to produce the stockpile.”
at 1:24:16 - 1:15:14
Defense procurement pushed commercial companies out of the market
“Everything they learned about building machinery to process cereal, they were able to leverage in the service of national security to make our warfighters more lethal.”
at 1:15:56 - 1:55:17
Longer assignments let top military talent compound expertise
“With AI and the AI revolution, people think, oh, it's going to make the median person better. That's true. But it's going to make the very best person superhuman.”
at 1:56:28
- 2:11:36
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