Palantir: The App That Caught Bin Laden

[@christopherwillson]

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]

John,do you actually works for Mr Thiel?

[@christopherwillson]

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

[@benjaminwoo8069]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@evdm7482]

What’s his role?

[@marciplan]

@@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]

@@marciplan or both

[@marciplan]

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

[@mikemaldanado6015]

This is against the law, not disclosing info like this

[@SlimJimZA]

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

[@JPage-fj7mb]

I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed this half hour Palantir KZbin 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]

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

[@ericmunene8521]

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

[@stopato5772]

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

[@NithinJune]

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

[@mi1400]

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.

[@jefism]

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"

[@jefism]

@@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]

Palintar is used by the CIA like Oceangate used NASA.

[@evdm7482]

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]

Thank you, saved me time

[@tuckerbugeater]

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

[@brandonburns5365]

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

[@yaakovasternberg6295]

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

[@mack2001x]

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

[@mi1400]

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]

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

[@brianwilson7624]

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]

Data analytics. Data integration

[@MikaelArhelger]

Intended

[@jeil5676]

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]

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)

[@loldoctor]

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]

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]

I thought you said one small correction 😂

[@Zaryn9000]

@@ragetobe For an academic, that was small

[@ragetobe]

@@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.

[@af.tatchell]

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.

[@RemiStardust]

"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]

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

[@HakanCobanoglu]

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

[@wasimshaikh1665]

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]

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 !

[@1337kaas]

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.

[@AgryptNos]

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]

This!

[@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO]

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

[@lawrencefrost9063]

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

[@AgryptNos]

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

[@bobaloo2012]

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.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

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.

[@magnetsec]

And now you're regretting not taking them seriously.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

@@magnetsec Why would I regret that?

[@sampath6924]

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

[@philuu6357]

This aged like milk

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

@@philuu6357 Why's that

[@essm4179]

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

[@tigercub2468]

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]

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

[@thederpyrock5247]

Incorrect. They first partnered with the government in 2010 via public records. As your information may not be entirely true because of the restrictions placed when working with the government. Lol

[@tigercub2468]

@@thederpyrock5247Palantir was founded in 2003 in response to the GWOT, and its first customer was the IC.

[@Seanydd]

Pltr bag holders hands up 🙌

[@riodweber]

Haha. When Moon?!? 🌚

[@Seanydd]

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

[@riodweber]

@@Seanydd dude same. Except average cost is 8.10

[@dialac1]

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

[@darbkavon]

Since Feb 2021… unbelievable company! 💎💎

[@RemiStardust]

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!

[@ngana8755]

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?

[@xvdifug]

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

[@ezradja]

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

[@wawawuu1514]

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).

[@ÒSÁ_MEJI]

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

[@leavemebe-r3u]

It is what it is. Whatever the military has the police have. Whatever the police have the cartels and criminals have. Just live life and mind your business.....that's all we can do.

[@zeketorres9257]

AMERICA, AMERICANS!! What would Italians, Germans and Britons think if the French would claim "We are the only Europeans"? I don't understand why Unitedstadians think they are the only Americans??? America is a CONTINENT with 35 sovereign countries and over one billion people. Unitedstadians do not speak for the interests of all Americans! Haiti was already a state 100 years before the first USA city, Jamestown was founded! Haiti, Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, etc. are all American countries.... And have been American for over a hundred years more than the Unitedstadians! So this means that any Mexican is as American as any Argentinian... and vice versa! What do we call the people of United States??? In Latin America, they are called UNITEDSTADIANS! I love the United States, this is my country where I grew up and where I live.

[@mattcero1]

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

[@qwertzuiopqwertzuiop2107]

The whole video seems like an ad

[@alexanderSydneyOz]

Christ this sounds like a paid promotion

[@JoeRogansForehead]

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

[@HKim0072]

PLTR has a 60 PE. It will never make a lot of money. It will always have a limited customer base. Unless PLTR goes rogue, the US government will limit their client base.

[@PalantirVisionOfficial]

Amazing! Thanks for the storytelling, John

[@andyc9902]

Nice that the company commented. 😊

[@Maximus18.6]

There are some inconsistencies in your video. 1. How was possible that Palantir could have performed test with low rank military without the approval of senior military?. 2. Palantir CEO studied law and he is a philosopher, it is not clear his contribution to the team due to he had no idea about coding nor software development, and engineering. 3. How was he able to Start an investment fund without any background and studies in finance. 4. It was clearly stated by the Palantir Chieff Technology Officer, Osama Bin Laden was captured due to the effort of people using technology, therefore, Palantir software played a small part on that achievement. 6. Karp is a socialist and that is not a good signal, good luck to all of us, I am sure this mate has many mental issues. 6. To everyone one if you want to achieve your dreams, you only need money and more money otherwise your idea is rubbish.

[@tmsmqwx]

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]

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]

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

[@tmsmqwx]

@@___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

[@FullyWovenBeethoven]

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

[@noahway13]

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

[@JelMain]

Palantir found him, but he was where he was anticipated to be, which allowed his execution under terms you'll discover once the limitations run out.

[@aliveandwellinisrael2507]

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.

[@tejasshetty4400]

[@balover2010]

Bless you my dear, I needed the giggles today

[@sartazaziz856]

00:00 The story of Palantir, a secretive company that helped catch Osama Bin Laden 04:30 Palantir was founded to sell software to the US government for counter-terrorism purposes. 08:38 PayPal's CTO built a program to solve credit card fraud, which later inspired Palantir's software. 12:39 Palantir's success in government contracts 16:48 Palantir's success in the military market was due to its strategy of introducing its product to soldiers directly. 20:37 Palantir sued the US government and won the right to participate in the bidding process. 24:24 Palantir became the government's go-to company for big data analysis after its involvement in the Bin Laden case. 28:04 Palantir's work with governments during the pandemic and their focus on AI positions them for continued growth.

[@stanbratch6534]

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]

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

[@internet_userr]

Xi jing height was tryna bite

[@ParameterGrenze]

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

[@christopherwillson]

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

[@christopherwillson]

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

[@ravendon]

I would have sold Palantir to Russia, China, Israel, Honduras, Iran and see how quickly the US Army would change their minds.

[@nonsequitor]

"Zero Dark Thirty" ....because 24 hour clocks aren't already clear enough on when it's nighttime for the military? 🤔🙈

[@Kawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww]

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

[@jamalism1]

Palantir can get Osama who is a thousand miles away but couldn't find CDNG's El Mencho who is your next door neighbor. Something just don't cut it with me.

[@whawha9016]

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?

[@zamoeyu]

He is

[@br0k3nman]

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]

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

[@meeeka]

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]

Basically spying on the population.

[@lawrencefrost9063]

Uhh, you forgot your meds, son.

[@myintmyat2697]

"Palantir is a dangerous tool saruman"- Gandalf

[@fahadahaf]

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

[@mammajamma4397]

This is the story of every government tech contractor ever lol

[@ivanmaglica264]

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.

[@andrewlau611]

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

[@jkb4200]

As someone with a STEM PhD I am highly skeptical of anyone who insists on being called 'doctor'

[@jambalaya974]

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

[@dgillies5420]

It's an obvious advertisement for Palantir.

[@johnmanderson2060]

12:55 ⚠️ The background music is louder than the interview ! ⁉️

[@Capeau]

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

[@JohnS-er7jh]

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

[@jaytravis2487]

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]

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

[@zbot2123]

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.

[@Martinko_Pcik]

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

[@palantirresearch]

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.

[@markusmatthew7044]

Digging your channel's concept. 🔥

[@palantirresearch]

@@markusmatthew7044 thanks! 🙏

[@GabrielM01]

Anyone who is working with the WEF is a threat

[@jimbernard3289]

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!

[@internet_userr]

❤

[@internet_userr]

Edit: 😔

[@JohnCooganPlus]

i love hearing that!

[@baxter987]

Watched whole video and conclusion was that we can not know how Palantir helped to track down Bin Laden. Whole video is basically an engaging history about Palantir. A time sink and a time waste, generating watch time for KZbin

[@bp-kl3zr]

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

[@JoePinball2006]

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.

[@etiennebreton7925]

Thank you for covering Palantir. Proud shareholder.

[@ipreign7513]

also a proud enthusiast to be an intern at palantir

[@hold.aaronnorman]

John, incredible work! Love this content.

[@josephspruill1212]

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

[@eliash9956]

There are many types of terrorism that palantir will never help to solve: the terror of Assad, the terror of pogroms under Netanyahu, the terror of concentration camps under Xi, the terror of juntas committing genocide. When there is no will. There is no way.

[@izthizalrdytkn]

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

[@moneyneversleeps.europe]

The casual multi millionaire lifestyle over in Europe 😄

[@Elliott_Wave]

Great presentation, thank you!

[@TheAceTroubleshooter]

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........

[@secretpepperclub6160]

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

[@clavo3352]

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

[@secretpepperclub6160]

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

[@stefpix]

Is this a Palantir sponsored video? This sounds like an advert for Palantir. I have never heard anyone referring to Karp as dr. Karp. Not a single criticism to the company.

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

[@mammajamma4397]

Lol right

[@joyboricua3721]

Excellent thrilling narration. Kudos!

[@daniellim8964]

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

[@ameremortal]

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

[@neilbeekie1086]

So do I

[@JohnCooganPlus]

thanks! that’s awesome to hear!

[@zakgault4209]

You just watched an advert?

[@stischer47]

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

[@adexyoung9100]

I wonder when usa Companies in the usa get support from the government, its not a big deal but when china companies get support from their government. What do we call it

[@michaelnauer7875]

This is a Palantir commercial

[@agranero6]

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

[@Robc2007]

Still not convinced Palantir can diversify from its core government clients. It's commercial segment is stagnating.

[@oliver-nation4377]

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

[@RemiStardust]

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]

@@RemiStardust lmao

[@oliver-nation4377]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@MrEvansjethro]

Those who believe that an app played a significant role in capturing Bin Laden are gullible people. It was Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor, who assisted the US in the operation, not a weak American app that would be of no use to the Russians.

[@kisfekete]

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?...

[@DushevnaSepsa]

Wait, he wanted a nest egg, so he started a company in London? He's also into investing, while getting phd, soooo, where did the money come from? I bet its not cheap to register a company in London while living in Germany as American...7min in, its pointless to discuss anything from a business point when its so entangled with secret gov agencies.

[@froggyranks]

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

[@johnqpublic6228]

Why was the body never seen? Why would a desert dweller want to buried at sea? Too many unanswered questions.

[@tiagotiagot]

Why what he wanted would be taken in consideration in the first place?

[@raspberriepi]

Bin Landen is still a life in super security cell.

[@yankees29]

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

[@timotheeedogbo9972]

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

[@RoseGoldGunner09]

This video is straight Gold!! Information gold!

[@josephfoster1987]

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]

[@amitinvesting]

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

[@rohw0016]

I see you 👀

[@amitinvesting]

@@rohw0016😂😂

[@rund_wie_eckig]

I just love the quality of production of your videos. Plus the quality of research and delivery of the information made me activate the notification bell for your channel. And your channel is one of 5 for which I did that 😊 Thank you and greetings from Germany ✌🏼

[@Doggieman1111]

This guy sounds like he's getting paid by these companies to do this

[@MarioAndreschak]

"The most technical advanced country in the world: America" 🤣🤣

[@healthysocieties6221]

China leads the world in 37 of 44 critical technologies - Australian Strategic Policy Institute

[@brentbarham3157]

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]

"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.

[@bigsmoke6414]

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]

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

[@kimollivier]

Wasn't it Airbus? Were you really listening?

[@clintonharold8375]

John this is yet another amazing video!

[@dkierans]

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

[@ak4good]

Great Palantir Ad, bravo 👏

[@randomsitisee7113]

Lol The “App”

[@___gg421]

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

[@_HMCB_]

What a long-winded video. I’m 3/4 way through and still don’t know what it does. Then I start reading the comments and now it makes sense. Time for a big thumbs down and a blocking of this channel. Thanks for screwing with users.

[@nodrance]

"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]

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?

[@BigRey7]

One of the most important companies in the world 🐐

[@robr177]

You know, if the software runs on big mainframes or unix servers, it's not an "App"

[@Mightydoggo]

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)