Palantir: The App That Caught Bin Laden

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  • Опубликовано: 1 июл 2023
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  • @christopherwillson
    @christopherwillson 10 месяцев назад +2460

    You should disclose the fact that you work for Founders Fund (Peter Thiel) when you make a video about a portfolio company of Founders Fund that was founded by Peter Thiel -- especially when the shiny claim that Palantir was used to find Bin Laden is just a rumor that has been disputed by people with knowledge on the matter.

    • @kingstonstreet3726
      @kingstonstreet3726 9 месяцев назад +47

      John,do you actually works for Mr Thiel?

    • @christopherwillson
      @christopherwillson 9 месяцев назад

      @@kingstonstreet3726 He does. He disclosed it in the video posted on July 25.

    • @benjaminwoo8069
      @benjaminwoo8069 9 месяцев назад +62

      Peter likely employs a decent number of content creators in one way or another. He's the Kaiser Sose' of the internet lol.

    • @ChadAF_YT
      @ChadAF_YT 9 месяцев назад +26

      As a US military operator I cannot say too much, but palantir 100% helped to catch bin laden! They were not the only thing, but they did help in the apprehension of osa bin laden

    • @christopherwillson
      @christopherwillson 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@ChadAF_YT And I'm Jason Bourne. Don't come in here waving around who you are or aren't without proof. Going by your current occupation, age and the fact that you're a Palantir shareholder (which you conveniently chose not to tell us about), it's fair to assume you're just some random wannabe talking their book.

  • @marciplan
    @marciplan 10 месяцев назад +582

    You should add a disclaimer in these videos about your role at Founders Fund, John

    • @evdm7482
      @evdm7482 10 месяцев назад +9

      What’s his role?

    • @marciplan
      @marciplan 10 месяцев назад +70

      @@evdm7482 He's an EIC there. If you're making content about your portfolio companies you should put a disclaimer up front or at the end :)

    • @DiosanXaquerry
      @DiosanXaquerry 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@marciplan or both

    • @marciplan
      @marciplan 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@DiosanXaquerry To John's credit, though, he started doing that now :)

    • @mikemaldanado6015
      @mikemaldanado6015 Месяц назад +2

      This is against the law, not disclosing info like this

  • @SlimJimZA
    @SlimJimZA 3 месяца назад +39

    It's a legal requirement to state when it's sponsored content. Food for thought

  • @JPage-fj7mb
    @JPage-fj7mb 10 месяцев назад +601

    I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed this half hour Palantir RUclips Ad! Strange to see it, given that I have YT Red. If it were, hypothetically speaking, an unbiased review of Palantir and its use in military/government projects, rather than an ad, we might've seen some negatives. So relieved we don't have to be burdened by anything that heavy!

    • @piyh3962
      @piyh3962 9 месяцев назад +5

      Here's a negative - they've never been in the black

    • @psychosageio
      @psychosageio 9 месяцев назад +10

      Been subbed to John for a while now. I don't know if he's doing it on purpose, but his videos of late certainly seem to be leaning toward an "independent RUclipsr" version of a growing anti-China / pro-military propaganda machine mainstream media keeps pumping out lately

    • @ericmunene8521
      @ericmunene8521 8 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@joelw2413 Why . I live in East Africa and the US democracy spreading has been fucking us in Sudan Congo Tigray and Somalia

    • @stopato5772
      @stopato5772 8 месяцев назад

      Are you sure it is Us democracy, or European French democracy, or Ruzzianazi 'democracy?@@ericmunene8521

    • @NithinJune
      @NithinJune 4 месяца назад +4

      it’s called youtube premium not red
      it hasn’t been called youtube red for like 5 years

  • @brandonburns5365
    @brandonburns5365 10 месяцев назад +156

    Palantir: The app that caught Bin Laden 😂😂😂
    This guy must own stock in the company 😂

    • @yaakovasternberg6295
      @yaakovasternberg6295 10 месяцев назад +24

      Apparently he does indeed have an undisclosed interest. See comment from @marciplan.

    • @mack2001x
      @mack2001x 7 месяцев назад +7

      he is an EIC for Founders Fund which is owned by Thiel i believe

    • @mi1400
      @mi1400 22 дня назад

      Its a mediocre product infact showing how SQLServer and Oracle suck... i have seen decade old YT videos of palantir too and then they were better and less spiced than binladen cooked up story and were true to real examples... their example was good like how sanctioned regimes move around around heir ocean cargo ships and how bits of info on ship could track its forged movements... its basically a NoSQL non RDBMS non structured data mining tool which anyway got developed by others too thanks to coincident back-to-back-sudden deaths of Hi5, Orkut, MySpace at the hands of facebook because of its shift from obselete model of like 5mb hotmail and ~50mb gmail ... and facebook itself working as tech house not just dating etc site... this explosion of no-structured (chats, friends, friends of friends) data excelled new companies to fly past palantir.

  • @geniemiki
    @geniemiki 9 месяцев назад +66

    I watched the whole thing and still have no idea what the software acutally is.

    • @brianwilson7624
      @brianwilson7624 2 месяца назад +4

      I think its that thing that when you go through the macdonalds and place your order it detects that there is a car there. I'm not a scientist but this is what I believe

    • @NineInchTyrone
      @NineInchTyrone Месяц назад

      Data analytics. Data integration

    • @MikaelArhelger
      @MikaelArhelger Месяц назад

      Intended

    • @jeil5676
      @jeil5676 Месяц назад +2

      If they are finding IED's with it, I assume it was tracking cell phones and possibly listening in to flagged words, but It may have evolved into much more. I was hoping for some indication myself but this video ended up being about the business and not the product. I gave up after 20 minutes.

    • @anarchosnowflakist786
      @anarchosnowflakist786 26 дней назад

      reading the company's wikipedia page is fun, here's what they seem to be doing : tracking people and mass surveillance, finding and deporting immigrants and their families, creating "ai" led autonomous drones for the military, spreading disinformation and disruptions to stop the "threat" of wikileaks (aka people revealing informations about the US's illegal activities)

  • @jeff2758
    @jeff2758 10 месяцев назад +315

    27 minutes in and in missing the part where it was actually used. Well played. Cant wait for "Google Earth, the app that helped kill ISIS"

    • @jeff2758
      @jeff2758 10 месяцев назад

      @@adamk.7177 oh let's argue semantics, "Google Earth, the app that helped find ISIS.", This is clickbait at its absolute finest. "This Channel: The Channel that wasted 30 minutes of everyone's lives" you don't make a claim without supporting that claim unless you're clickbait. I mean I did rub 39 marathons in a row without a single rest, I'll expect your support when I release that video but I'm currently typing during #40.
      You won't believe what happened during Marathon 37! Click to find out more!

    • @chadx8269
      @chadx8269 10 месяцев назад

      Palintar is used by the CIA like Oceangate used NASA.

    • @evdm7482
      @evdm7482 10 месяцев назад +2

      Oh dang, Isis ends at Division across the st from Rainbow grocery in SF. If it wasn’t for Jeff I woulda never known about google

    • @weltvonalex
      @weltvonalex 9 месяцев назад +8

      Thank you, saved me time

    • @tuckerbugeater
      @tuckerbugeater 9 месяцев назад

      They knew Bin Laden was in Iran and they shipped into Pakistan for the kill. @@floppathebased1492

  • @RemiStardust
    @RemiStardust 10 месяцев назад +64

    "The App That Caught Bin Laden"
    25:24 And then he admits it's 'actually hard to say for sure'
    Hey, but it's a great click-bait title! And the Palantir stock bros wil LOVE it!

    • @zakgault4209
      @zakgault4209 9 месяцев назад +3

      Seriously! 😳 Thanks, it just saved me 10 minutes of time.

    • @HakanCobanoglu
      @HakanCobanoglu 6 дней назад

      This was what I was going to write if you hadn’t . Pure click and bait!

  • @loldoctor
    @loldoctor 10 месяцев назад +75

    A small, but very important, correction: Alex Karp didn't "study under" Habermas. In academia, to "study under" a professor implies that you were the advisee of that professor. Because this relationship is similar to a master-apprentice system, the name of a student's mentor has a huge impact on that student's career after completing their degree and, if that advisor is famous, gives the advisee a great deal of credibility by association. For those unaware, Habermas is one of the most famous intellectuals of the 20th century, and his ideas are taught across the West (if not beyond) in undergrad and even high school courses. If you've ever heard of or studied the "public sphere," you've heard of or studied Habermas.
    But Habermas wasn't Karp's advisor, Karola Brede was. Technically, he did "study under" Habermas insofar as he worked with him and possibly took a course with him, but this relationship is completely different from an advisee-advisor relationship. It's like claiming you "worked under" Christopher Nolan because you had a single, inconsequential line in one of his movies, or that you're "related to" Brad Pitt because your second-cousin is married to his cousin's nephew, or that you "attended Harvard" because you went to a public lecture there. Technically it's true, but it implies something far beyond the reality of the situation. I suspect Karp worked with Habermas beyond one line, since he was faculty during Karp's time in grad school, but the gap between "studied under" and "worked with" is a massive one.
    Obviously Karp benefits tremendously from making this claim. Even having worked with Habermas in any capacity is something many scholars would kill for, and thus there's a lot of weight to having any degree of a working relationship with him for any point. That's what makes misrepresenting his relationship with Habermas both so powerful and so heinous, as there are very few people who have had the privilege to work with one of the greatest minds of a generation, and it takes away from their work and deserved credibility to claim that working with, or taking a class with, a professor is the same as apprenticing under that professor.

    • @dgillies5420
      @dgillies5420 7 месяцев назад +1

      Since academia today is basically a career self-marketing profession today and not much of an academic pursuit any longer, I am not surprised that this guy trades off the name of the most famous prof at his university. That bit goes with the academic sleaze. And his name is Karp isn't there a CS guy named Richard Karp at Berkeley too??

    • @ragetobe
      @ragetobe 3 месяца назад +2

      I thought you said one small correction 😂

    • @Zaryn9000
      @Zaryn9000 3 месяца назад

      @@ragetobe For an academic, that was small

    • @ragetobe
      @ragetobe 3 месяца назад

      @@Zaryn9000 He thinks he is an academic, he didn't even read what he wrote, most of it makes zero sense and the rest makes him look stupid.

  • @alexanderSydneyOz
    @alexanderSydneyOz 3 месяца назад +5

    Christ this sounds like a paid promotion

    • @JoeRogansForehead
      @JoeRogansForehead 3 дня назад

      He works for Peter Theil lol
      “One of a kind CEO”

  • @user-wv7bn1fy5v
    @user-wv7bn1fy5v 9 месяцев назад +61

    Anyone who insists on being called "doctor" isn't the kind of person I want to know. I've worked with hundreds of PhDs with degrees like Plasma Physics from MIT, Nuclear Medicine from Stanford, etc. None of these brilliant people demanded to be called doctor... I worked with Dave for 2 years before I knew he had a PhD... These folks were brilliant and capable and let their accomplishments speak for themselves.

    • @saintkamei
      @saintkamei 7 месяцев назад

      This!

    • @MTXSHO9732vV8SHO
      @MTXSHO9732vV8SHO 7 месяцев назад

      Shrugs... I have yet to base a decision based upon your lines of thinking.

    • @lawrencefrost9063
      @lawrencefrost9063 4 месяца назад +1

      You don't want to know Dr Who? I don't want to know you.

    • @user-wv7bn1fy5v
      @user-wv7bn1fy5v 4 месяца назад

      @@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO talk to me when you've done something that involved more than video games.

    • @bobaloo2012
      @bobaloo2012 3 месяца назад +3

      As a "Doctor" I agree 100 per cent. Most of the time when someone makes a deal out of it I assume their degree is from a diploma mill.

  • @wasimshaikh1665
    @wasimshaikh1665 3 месяца назад +22

    You forgot to mention Palantir stolen i2 Inc code and settled out of court for millions of dollars for copyright infringement. It's an ad for Palantir so I don't think you would mention it

    • @anarchosnowflakist786
      @anarchosnowflakist786 26 дней назад +1

      hey they didn't just do that, here's the wikipedia page for the company :
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Controversies
      really an enlightening read !

  • @Seanydd
    @Seanydd 10 месяцев назад +304

    Pltr bag holders hands up 🙌

    • @riodweber
      @riodweber 10 месяцев назад +12

      Haha. When Moon?!? 🌚

    • @Seanydd
      @Seanydd 10 месяцев назад +14

      Held from 7$ to 15$ not selling until 100 👍🙏

    • @riodweber
      @riodweber 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@Seanydd dude same. Except average cost is 8.10

    • @dialac1
      @dialac1 10 месяцев назад +2

      I don’t think I can consider myself a bag holder. I wish I had money to buy more

    • @darbkavon
      @darbkavon 10 месяцев назад +4

      Since Feb 2021… unbelievable company! 💎💎

  • @qwertzuiopqwertzuiop2107
    @qwertzuiopqwertzuiop2107 10 месяцев назад +10

    The whole video seems like an ad

  • @tigercub2468
    @tigercub2468 4 месяца назад +13

    I'm late to the game here..
    Bin Laden was killed in May 2011, well before Palantir was widely liked or used by the military. While it was in service, there were a lot of gripes, and it wasn't an enterprise tool like it is now. Nor was it cloud-based, which meant each user needed a dedicated laptop, which limited market penetration.
    I was using Palantir in 2010-ish and 2012 in Afg. Their product came on a Dell 6500 dual-HD laptop, which always crashed (in my exp). It wasn't popular because the UX wasn't intuitive and had to compete against many other analytical tools. At that point in the wars, too many tools were available, and analysts stuck with what they knew, making adopting new products and ideas harder.
    It was in 2015/2016 that Palantir revamped its entire product and hosted it in the cloud with a better UI, drastically improving the UX and leading to service/enterprise-wide adoption. They also sued the Army, which forced the military to reevaluate Palantir's merits. Luckily, Palanir was/is superior, as demonstrated against ISIS, and more and more people were using it.
    In other words, it's unlikely that Palantir played an outsized role in the intelligence community or the prosecution of UBL. Based on my recollection, the hunt for UBL was more likely done on various platforms than just one. Palantir might have been in the mix, but probably not as the lead. That said, it definitely played an outsize role in the killing of Bagdadi, the leader of ISIS, because it is the premier software tool to make sense of the battlefield today.

    • @michaelrusso8466
      @michaelrusso8466 3 месяца назад +4

      Literally the only helpful comment on this 30 minute Palantir advertisement.

  • @thewhitefalcon8539
    @thewhitefalcon8539 10 месяцев назад +85

    When I studied at uni, Palantir was at the jobs fairs. Their software... seemed not very useful. They were basically showing off how you could draw lines between the icons on your screen.

    • @cytroyd
      @cytroyd 10 месяцев назад +8

      And now you're regretting not taking them seriously.

    • @thewhitefalcon8539
      @thewhitefalcon8539 10 месяцев назад +25

      @@cytroyd Why would I regret that?

    • @sampath6924
      @sampath6924 8 месяцев назад +2

      lol boy were you wrong, that thought did not age well

  • @ezradja
    @ezradja 10 месяцев назад +66

    People, that same app could be use against you too. Beware!

    • @wawawuu1514
      @wawawuu1514 9 месяцев назад

      That 'could' is probably already an 'is being'. Fuck mass surveillance by governments (and cheers to Edward Snowden). I admit I haven't watched this video (yet), but the title suggests a pro-Palantir propaganda story. Note I use propaganda in the neutral sense of the word, with propaganda meaning just spreading information to the benefit of an entity such as a (political) organization, an individual and their goals or: a computer program (such as one that can be used to mass-surveille people). Meaning just because it's propaganda, it's not necessarily inaccurate or full of lies, just that it disseminates information to the benefit of somebody or something. I'm guessing this video does not contain any major inaccuracies or even outright lies, but again, judging from the title it sounds like it makes the existence and use of Palantir, in the hands of the government, more palatable to the masses (I hope I'm wrong). Regardless of whether that's the video's/video creator's intention, intention doesn't matter a bit. What matters is what people will take away from this video and I hope I'm wrong and it ain't "Yeah, maybe mass surveillance can be okay after all, just in some cases, I guess? Bin Laden was a really bad guy after all!" And that's how they get their foot in your door.
      Bin Laden's crimes, as horrible as they were, don't amount to even a drop in the bucket of poverty, murder, terror, exploitation, systemic oppression, intentional suffering and all other forms of violence caused by most governments in the world, regardless whether they're openly evil dictatorships or the so-called liberal democracies of the West (actually, the latter are even worse, speaking in honeyed tongues while supporting and collaborating with some of the world's most openly evil governments (example: Germany, a liberal, parliamentary "democracy" and its support for Erdogan and weapons deals with Saudi-Arabia).
      Also I hate how they took the name from Lord of the Rings. While Tolkien was conservative (and outright racist), I dunno if he had been down with mass-spying on people employing technology (which the rapid, unchecked spread of was something Tolkien was critical of, after all, what with how Sauron's armies represent industrialization and the destruction of England's beautiful countrysides) on a scale somebody like, say, Stalin could have only dreamt of (and had he been down wit it, well, fuck his view on the matter then).

    • @teslim_fairy_tale
      @teslim_fairy_tale 9 месяцев назад +4

      It has been used already against tons of people, cos they and they only decide who’s criminal and who’s innocent🙄

  • @ngana8755
    @ngana8755 3 месяца назад +4

    If Palantir is so effective, then why wasn't it able to predict the Taliban taking over in Afghanistan and the killing of 13 American soldiers as the U.S. was desperately trying to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover? It's like in chess: why take credit for taking out your adversary's rook or queen when you ended up losing the game?

  • @1337kaas
    @1337kaas 10 месяцев назад +8

    Bunch of palantir bagholders hyping this video in the comments, lol. Clickbait title and nothing ever mentioned about how palantir was uses to find osama.

  • @RemiStardust
    @RemiStardust 10 месяцев назад +39

    Let's be honest: You could make any mundane, boring company seem exciting with this techy, pulsating track in the background. Throw in a bunch of stock clips of computer code flying by, rotating dolly shots, some drone footage et voila!
    Charmin toilet paper is exciting!

  • @AngusTatchell
    @AngusTatchell 3 месяца назад +14

    The photo at 17:50 is not of Licklider but of British actor Sir Michael Caine from the 1967 spy movie 'Billion Dollar Brain' playing the role of Harry Palmer.

  • @Kawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
    @Kawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 3 месяца назад +3

    I specifically pay for RUclips Premium to avoid ads, yet here I am

  • @myintmyat2697
    @myintmyat2697 9 месяцев назад +5

    "Palantir is a dangerous tool saruman"- Gandalf

  • @essm4179
    @essm4179 10 месяцев назад +8

    Total click-bait title & the video Looks like a paid advertisement for Palantir.

  • @xvdifug
    @xvdifug 9 месяцев назад +4

    "They spent long nights cuddling and snuggling after agreeing on all points of an argument."

  • @andrewlau611
    @andrewlau611 10 месяцев назад +18

    A half-hour long video about Palantir and not one mention of Edward Snowden's revelations? 🤔

  • @michaelnauer7875
    @michaelnauer7875 Месяц назад +7

    This is a Palantir commercial

    • @agranero6
      @agranero6 5 дней назад

      Yes it is. I made a similar comment about this myself.

  • @raspberriepi
    @raspberriepi 9 месяцев назад +5

    Bin Landen is still a life in super security cell.

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 Месяц назад

      He’s splattered all over the sand now dude.😂

  • @PalantirVisionOfficial
    @PalantirVisionOfficial 10 месяцев назад +47

    Amazing! Thanks for the storytelling, John

    • @andyc9902
      @andyc9902 8 месяцев назад

      Nice that the company commented. 😊

  • @stanbratch6534
    @stanbratch6534 10 месяцев назад +227

    Thank you for putting out a historically accurate summary of the company without the hype or obvious toxic bias in either direction. Well done sir. The shire accepts your membership application.

    • @internet_userr
      @internet_userr 10 месяцев назад +1

      Xi jing ping was Following
      me xi jing Dong was playing ping pong

    • @internet_userr
      @internet_userr 10 месяцев назад

      Xi jing height was tryna bite

    • @ParameterGrenze
      @ParameterGrenze 10 месяцев назад

      Came here to write this comment but you did it better and more concise.

    • @christopherwillson
      @christopherwillson 10 месяцев назад +11

      Without the hype? LOL. Did you not read the BS title?

    • @christopherwillson
      @christopherwillson 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@Morribyte Obviously, but they can do that without bullshitting.

  • @timotheeedogbo9972
    @timotheeedogbo9972 10 месяцев назад

    Seems you're uploading weekly now. Love this. Keep it up

  • @mattcero1
    @mattcero1 9 месяцев назад +5

    I love how nurse Karp totally embraces Socialism while taking full advantage of Capitalism and getting filthy rich while doing so.

  • @TheAceTroubleshooter
    @TheAceTroubleshooter 7 месяцев назад +3

    I just got done watching a Demo on their channel from a few months ago... I am absolutely speechless... Part of my job in the Army was maintaining the FBCB2 or BFT (Blue Force Tracker) system, basically the system that allows brass to see whats going on down range in real time, imagine Age of Empires, and I thought that was insane at the time.... This however.... I got goosebumps immediately, and by the end I was ready to vomit. The fact the military doesnt have this deployed with every single branch and using it to its fullest capability is absolutely insane, to the point of being damn near treasonous........

  • @mammajamma4397
    @mammajamma4397 10 месяцев назад +23

    This is the story of every government tech contractor ever lol

  • @etiennebreton7925
    @etiennebreton7925 10 месяцев назад +14

    Thank you for covering Palantir. Proud shareholder.

    • @ipreign7513
      @ipreign7513 10 месяцев назад +5

      also a proud enthusiast to be an intern at palantir

  • @JohnS-er7jh
    @JohnS-er7jh 10 месяцев назад +2

    great video, I never even heard of palantir until now. I recommend turning down the volume on the background soundtrack

  • @fastonchisanga5194
    @fastonchisanga5194 10 месяцев назад +7

    Wow John you are the best analyst thumbs up ❤❤I enjoy your videos

  • @aliveandwellinisrael2507
    @aliveandwellinisrael2507 10 месяцев назад +30

    Ohhhh, that makes complete sense now.
    Osama had found one of the Palantiri somewhere in the Middle-East, and hoping to be able to utilize the object's power to aid him, he made the mistake of using it.
    The moment he placed his hands upon the orb and gazed in, he was immediately under attack by a powerful force. He heard horrific sounds: Bush struggling to say "nuculur" mixed with sounds of country music and the dropping of bombs. None of it could compare to what he saw next. What saw him.
    Immediately from the darkness of the orb flashed a single horrific red eye, an eye that could only belong to that most heinous of infernal beings. The eye of Dick Cheney turns its burning gaze toward an Osama powerless to remove his hands from the looking glass at this point. *"III SSEEEEEE YYOUUUUUUU!"*. He franticly tried to relinquish the sphere but alas it was too late.
    The enemy knew, and the Black Riders would soon glide through the streets of Abottabad in search of the only thing they seemed to care about.
    The ring. The one terrorist ring to rule them all.

  • @yyams
    @yyams 9 месяцев назад +1

    May I ask, was your audio overdubbed / recorded after the video was shot? I'm incredibly curious as something about it is telling me that must have been the case, but I can't put my finger on exactly why.
    Ta dude!

  • @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368
    @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 10 месяцев назад +8

    A great video.
    Sometimes the background music was a little loud and distracting though.

  • @br0k3nman
    @br0k3nman 10 месяцев назад +105

    Hah, I did an IT contract gig for them years ago in Palo Alto. Trust me, they were a bunch of young math and computer algorithm nerds that could not actually build or run a secure IT infrastructure, or even build an ikea desk… even if their lives depended on it. That’s not a slight against computer scientists or mathematicians, they were just hyper focused on their theoretical research. I could not make heads nor tails of the equations and stuff I saw around the place, or their casual relationship to the practical technology that made their jobs function. The shire just had a mission… Think of a genius that knows their field of science, but daisy-chains surge protectors risking fires, plugs a random usb stick into their company laptop risking malware… but I had a feeling that those awkward kids working for an LOTR theme+bioshock culture company were up to something incredible…. My judgement on their data mining is still out, PThiel is pretty much a monster. Smart kids though.

    • @arjunarun9147
      @arjunarun9147 10 месяцев назад

      you seem a bit condescending. Those nerds are much more valuable to the world than you and everything you've ever done.

    • @meeeka
      @meeeka 10 месяцев назад

      Agree about the monster. I read that he has bought up a lot of land and private islands to develop as his private security hideaways.

    • @FelixMendelson
      @FelixMendelson 4 месяца назад

      Basically spying on the population.

    • @lawrencefrost9063
      @lawrencefrost9063 4 месяца назад

      Uhh, you forgot your meds, son.

  • @izthizalrdytkn
    @izthizalrdytkn 9 месяцев назад +5

    His dream of a “modest life” constituted formulating an overseas investment firm. Super modest LOL

  • @tmsmqwx
    @tmsmqwx 10 месяцев назад +181

    The cool thing about the Palantir story for me is that two college roommates (I attended Stanford) who were on completely opposite ends of the spectrum politically still found value in their relationship, and how that value paid dividends years later. I recently watched some videos concerning Anduril's growing pains as a defense contractor. Hopefully the ties will begin to loosen and we can as a nation begin to utilize our talent more efficiently with respect to national defense.

    • @kareemelrefaay5300
      @kareemelrefaay5300 10 месяцев назад +11

      That's how politics should be utilised and used if one party took over they will build a hell or will crumble into nothing we need both sometimes to oppose each other and sometimes to refine and polish the other ideas and fill the holes that will enivetably appear

    • @___Anakin.Skywalker
      @___Anakin.Skywalker 10 месяцев назад +2

      How did you pay for Stanford tuition? Or did your mom or papa pay for it?

    • @tmsmqwx
      @tmsmqwx 10 месяцев назад +10

      @@___Anakin.Skywalker Well, if you're not rich but you go to a rich school, it's actually easier to afford because the school has plenty of money in their financial aid fund and they'll kick in the difference. This was 44 years ago, but after Pell Grants I believe I came out of pocket for about $700 my freshman year. It still holds true - my daughter graduated from Penn and we didn't pay much for her. On the other hand, my son went to Miami and that was an entirely different scenario

    • @Jack-uv2wh
      @Jack-uv2wh 10 месяцев назад

      Two millionaire investors team up to make billions spying on you.

    • @noahway13
      @noahway13 10 месяцев назад +2

      It is the unlearned masses that fight with each other and make enemies, and not friends.

  • @froggyranks
    @froggyranks 10 месяцев назад +4

    21 minutes past and I am yet to hear how the software works or what it does. Bye

  • @fahadahaf
    @fahadahaf 10 месяцев назад +30

    Calling a Landian Acc like Peter Thiel a libertarian is just plain hillarious

  • @hold.aaronnorman
    @hold.aaronnorman 19 дней назад

    John, incredible work! Love this content.

  • @Martinko_Pcik
    @Martinko_Pcik 10 месяцев назад +8

    Let people to invest in the company letting people to lose control to their government and enjoy the process by feeling rich. Genius move.

  • @dkierans
    @dkierans 10 месяцев назад +3

    This is really nice work. A lot of effort in this and it shows.

  • @kisfekete
    @kisfekete 9 месяцев назад +5

    Congratulations to the owners for choosing the outright most ominous, dangerous thing from Tolkien's mythos as the name of their company. One that turned a strong-willed wizard (Saruman the White) into a henchman of Sauron.
    I guess at least they are not fomenting illusions about where this all leads?...

  • @marklimbrick
    @marklimbrick 8 месяцев назад

    What film is the Michael Caine still photo from?
    What's he supposed to be doing with that tape console thing?
    I would guess that OBL and any of these targets get caught due to someone making a mistake or human foible like cracking Enigma. My enemies enemy is my friend as well probably helped. Plus a bit of greasing greedy palms.

  • @jaytravis2487
    @jaytravis2487 10 месяцев назад +7

    Now we're calling everything an 'algorithm'. Its like we looked into space and threw away terms like 'planet' and "sun" and now call everything 'gravity-masses'.
    Back in the day we'd call these 'Computer Programs' and even that was a little vague an not entire appropriate. Maybe a 'Software Suite'?
    'Apps' were small programs like widgets with highly specific applications and limited configuration options.

    • @giannisparanis3373
      @giannisparanis3373 8 месяцев назад

      algorithm sounds fancier beccause most people don't know the definition of the word.

    • @zbot2123
      @zbot2123 3 месяца назад +1

      Hi, Computer Scientist here, "algorithms" can be thought of as the methodologies used within computer programs to accomplish specific goals. In this case they developed methodologies at PayPal to detect fraud and those same methodologies might be useful for catching terrorists. In both cases you're generally looking for abnormal behavior.
      The entire AI craze right now centers around a single algorithm, Large Language Models, or LLMs.

  • @jimbernard3289
    @jimbernard3289 10 месяцев назад +45

    I always get excited when you upload a new video. Your videos are the only ones I never skip through. Your storytelling ability is spot on!

  • @mozzarella2261
    @mozzarella2261 10 месяцев назад

    Please make more videos about palantir, this was super insightful

  • @rohw0016
    @rohw0016 10 месяцев назад +2

    Great content.
    I didn’t know this history.

  •  10 месяцев назад +25

    So Palantir was developing software in an agile method way before Agile became popular.

  • @ameremortal
    @ameremortal 10 месяцев назад +65

    I share your videos with the founders at the company I work for. They’re always impressed.

  • @clintonharold8375
    @clintonharold8375 10 месяцев назад

    John this is yet another amazing video!

  • @bp-kl3zr
    @bp-kl3zr 10 месяцев назад +16

    This is one of the best videos I’ve seen about Palantir! A job well done!!!

  • @secretpepperclub6160
    @secretpepperclub6160 10 месяцев назад +36

    I've seen countless demos of Palantirs different work in different spaces in the government. What they do is nothing short of magical.

    • @clavo3352
      @clavo3352 3 месяца назад +1

      Despite your abstract value judgment, hearsay included. Your comment is the most credible one here !! Now there's some valuable irony.

    • @secretpepperclub6160
      @secretpepperclub6160 3 месяца назад

      I dont need, nor do I want to, prove anything to strangers about Palantir. This product is not something you can afford. Very few people touch and explore Palantir's work. Informing you of their platform's abilities has no value or purpose, so why would I want to?@@clavo3352

  • @Elliott_Wave
    @Elliott_Wave 10 месяцев назад

    Great presentation, thank you!

  • @phoenixaidenking
    @phoenixaidenking 10 месяцев назад +2

    Wow, this is world class story telling...🔥

  • @Capeau
    @Capeau 10 месяцев назад +4

    sounds like someone's holding some PLTR bags...

  • @brentbarham3157
    @brentbarham3157 10 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you so much for being partasin and not withholding information and leading people into your opinions. Was watching a video from “Modern MBA” about body cam history and I couldn’t even watch it.

    • @giannisparanis3373
      @giannisparanis3373 8 месяцев назад

      "Not being partisan" Did he even mention what opponents of palantir are saying? Seems like he very much chose a side and presented it as the objective truth.

  • @PhongNguyen-nz9kz
    @PhongNguyen-nz9kz 10 месяцев назад

    What an amazing, amazing educational video/documentary.

  • @ireaditsomewhere6294
    @ireaditsomewhere6294 10 месяцев назад

    New subscriber from Kenya. Nice content

  • @oliver-nation4377
    @oliver-nation4377 10 месяцев назад +27

    When creating videos like this, that resemble a documentary, you gotta include your sources.

    • @RemiStardust
      @RemiStardust 10 месяцев назад +13

      Pssst, nah. Just take an exciting music track, something techy, futuristic, heart-pounding. Then use clips of the founders making claims and tell the story as 'fact'. Anything the founders say, take it at face value. Sure it's a total black-box multi billion dollar publicly traded company where it's in the founders' interest for the market to hype the value, allowing the founders to cash-out without having to deliver on these promises...
      Unless there are tons of companies who renew their contracts with Palantir, investors would be smart to stay on the sidelines. Always ask yourself if you're the sucker in this 'investment' equation.

    • @myce-liam
      @myce-liam 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@RemiStardust lmao

    • @oliver-nation4377
      @oliver-nation4377 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@RemiStardust yor comment feels like if you took my comment and asked ChatGPT to give a counter answer, which is why it makes nu actual sense. Learn to write your own comments, and if that was your own, pls next time read the comment you are replying to.

    • @RemiStardust
      @RemiStardust 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@oliver-nation4377 Oh sadness. Are you a Palantir investor who finds it offensive when sb points out the complete 'trust-me' nature of the 'investment'?
      If so, why do you care about sources in this faux documentary promo piece?
      It's a technically well-done piece. Most people will think it's good and Palantir bulls will love it. Only the few serious people, especially those who've lost money in the stock market before, find this a dubious video.

    • @oliver-nation4377
      @oliver-nation4377 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@RemiStardust first of all. Stop using ChatGPT. Second, the reason sources matter is because you should never "state" anything you are unable to actually proove. And by thst you also need to cross check your sources.

  • @whawha9016
    @whawha9016 10 месяцев назад +19

    You make these soulless tech-mercenaries, who develop the tools for mass-surveillance beyond anything that STASI could ever dream of, look like heroes.
    Are you affiliated to them or to the intelligence-industrial complex coincidentally?

    • @boiwaif
      @boiwaif 7 месяцев назад +2

      He is

  • @raymaster
    @raymaster 9 месяцев назад +2

    dreams of a modest life while starting an investment fund.. dude was rich smuck from the begining...

  • @joyboricua3721
    @joyboricua3721 24 дня назад

    Excellent thrilling narration. Kudos!

    • @daniellim8964
      @daniellim8964 22 дня назад

      It is selfish and unethical to do a reenactment to take advantage, because it is a mockery of serious events

  • @RoseGoldGooner09
    @RoseGoldGooner09 10 месяцев назад +8

    This video is straight Gold!! Information gold!

  • @strictlyaesthetic9202
    @strictlyaesthetic9202 10 месяцев назад +3

    It took an APP to catch a 6'5 individual on Kidney Dialysis ......Ok...

  • @WildeTheGreat
    @WildeTheGreat 10 месяцев назад +2

    Great job! If you could lower the music volume a bit, this would be perfect.

  • @noahway13
    @noahway13 10 месяцев назад +1

    I don't remember that he did the little beg routine about hitting the LIKE button and subscribe, etc. And I just subscribed. When u put out a quality product, you don't have to beg.

  • @BigRey7
    @BigRey7 10 месяцев назад +6

    One of the most important companies in the world 🐐

  • @amitinvesting
    @amitinvesting 10 месяцев назад +24

    if you like this comment I know you’re a real one 😂 thanks for covering palantir jon!!!!

    • @rohw0016
      @rohw0016 10 месяцев назад +1

      I see you 👀

    • @amitinvesting
      @amitinvesting 10 месяцев назад

      @@rohw0016😂😂

  • @dixonpinfold2582
    @dixonpinfold2582 9 месяцев назад

    Regarding that thing 90-sec. from the end about already doing AI for a decade-plus before the current mania, the company was less noticed earlier on because they weren't making any money.

  • @jamesharris184
    @jamesharris184 Месяц назад

    Exceptionally well done.

  • @ccmurray7054
    @ccmurray7054 10 месяцев назад +16

    Excellent job once again on explaining things with great detail and making things digestible for the common man or woman. Do. Not. Stop.

    • @JohnCooganPlus
      @JohnCooganPlus  10 месяцев назад +1

      Appreciate the comment! Will. Keep. Posting!

  • @dialac1
    @dialac1 10 месяцев назад +8

    Thanks for this video. I currently own a little over 10k shares of this company since I had to sell some to renovate my house. Best investment so far after Apple.

  • @JoePinball2006
    @JoePinball2006 7 месяцев назад

    I have another correction! at 17:50 that's a pic of Michael Caine! it's a still from the movie "Billion Dollar Brain" starring him.

  • @sunilbastola
    @sunilbastola 10 месяцев назад +2

    World class documentary !! Thank you for putting everything together..

  • @palantirresearch
    @palantirresearch 10 месяцев назад +15

    Working in healthcare data, I get why most ppl and average investors don’t understand the company but the value and market they serve are painfully obvious to me. It really didn’t take much of a leap to understand.
    And once ppl get over that hurdle, being able to stomach a free discourse, government serving but civil liberty protecting persona is where the division comes from the most.

  • @Col-T-Invest
    @Col-T-Invest 10 месяцев назад +7

    Fantastic video, thank you so much. Palantir seems like the real deal in terms of creating real value out of large data sets and AI.

  • @___gg421
    @___gg421 10 месяцев назад +2

    Just finished 0 to 1 and Peter Theil talks about is in the book.

  • @VladimirFisher
    @VladimirFisher 10 месяцев назад +3

    Didn't know that Taiko Waititi is not only the great director, but also a Palantir CEO!

  • @Mightydoggo
    @Mightydoggo 10 месяцев назад +5

    Studying law with dyslexia is hella impressive tbh.
    I suffer from severe ADHD and I can barely bind my own shoes without medication. lmao
    (It´s not that bad actually)

  • @rise4329
    @rise4329 9 месяцев назад

    Wow, informative and intriguing! Thank you!!! 😊

  • @chickiesmp
    @chickiesmp 9 месяцев назад

    I love your videos, I just subscribed

  • @stischer47
    @stischer47 10 месяцев назад +9

    Ah yes, the problem with software and systems that are "inherently obvious" to engineers but gibberish to end users.

  • @daveselbow9128
    @daveselbow9128 10 месяцев назад +4

    25 mins in & you haven't even told me what the APP is yet - this thing better be good..EDIT; I dont think your gonna tell us - im off

    • @1337kaas
      @1337kaas 10 месяцев назад +1

      It's basically a documentary about the company instead of telling us what the app does and how it's used to catch osama. Waste 30 mins on a company history.

  • @josephspruill1212
    @josephspruill1212 10 месяцев назад +4

    We never needed a app to catch him. The ppl in Afghanistan pointed a the mountain he was staying in the other side where they pointed all the time! You ask where the Taliban was they pointed to that area. When I came home and they caught him. I was like that’s where the ppl was pointing all the time we just wasn’t listening period

  • @nodrance
    @nodrance 9 месяцев назад +2

    "The most technologically advance nation on earth"
    Oh surely they're talking about japan, they had smartphones with cameras like a decade before the rest of us
    "America"
    Oh they're one of those people

    • @theoh2282
      @theoh2282 9 месяцев назад

      I mean from most accounts its either the US or Japan so I wouldn't say he is making the craziest statement. Also what do you mean "one of those people" like people who have pride in their country?

  • @bhante1345
    @bhante1345 3 месяца назад

    Yeah, you're right, I hadn't the slightest notion as to how this all begun.

  • @tradito
    @tradito 10 месяцев назад +3

    Audio is way too compressed

  • @bigsmoke6414
    @bigsmoke6414 10 месяцев назад +6

    idk, but i have a really weird feeling, because i still have no real idea of what palantir is doing. They are connecting databases and are able to visualize the data, such that humans are able to more easily spot patterns etc. But that is not really that complex right? In which way is palantir superior to its competitors? I've seen multiple videos about palantir, but still no video that really gives me any significant information about them from a technical standpoint. How can you just go to Boeing, "take a look" at their database and magically solve most of their problems?

    • @moneyneversleeps.europe
      @moneyneversleeps.europe 10 месяцев назад

      I don’t understand it as well. I guess only math and computer science pros can really understand it

    • @kimollivier
      @kimollivier 8 месяцев назад

      Wasn't it Airbus? Were you really listening?

  • @Robyn-Hood
    @Robyn-Hood 10 месяцев назад +1

    John this was amazing!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @josephfoster1987
    @josephfoster1987 7 месяцев назад +2

    I'm glad you exist because I was worried that the tech industry wasn't killy enough. Good to know someone is still flying the flag for the military industrial complex. [sarcasm]

  • @jambalaya974
    @jambalaya974 3 месяца назад +3

    i watched 15 minutes of this video and i have no idea what the point of what i'm watching is.. this is complete garbage

  • @YoSmoked
    @YoSmoked 10 месяцев назад +18

    *Let's just appreciate how much of work and time he put into these videos 💘💘*

    • @oliver-nation4377
      @oliver-nation4377 10 месяцев назад +2

      Let's not, since it lags sources as proof of the statements he makes.

    • @AfricanLionBat
      @AfricanLionBat 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@oliver-nation4377it's lacks not lags* and he's not a journalist. He doesn't have to give sources if he wants to make videos for entertainment purposes. Also, that's a bot you just replied to.

    • @oliver-nation4377
      @oliver-nation4377 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@AfricanLionBat It is sad that you claim that he does not need to provide proof. The only time you do not need proof is about common knoledge. It is important to provide sources so he cannot spread misinformation, which is very common in undevelopped countries. (USA, or more eastern countries)

  • @ivanmaglica264
    @ivanmaglica264 4 месяца назад

    I'm confused, the UI that is showing throughout the video (for example 30:45) is a UI of a deployment tool. It does say Palantir, but it has stages, references to kubernetes, container deployment details, grafana stack details, ... It seems more like UI of a system that is used to deploy Palantir.