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SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell: “I love working for Elon Musk.” “He’s funny— he’s hilarious actually.” “He focuses on things that I would never have thought were important.” “One is— beautiful spaces.” “This is one of the most beautiful factories I have ever seen.” Via TIME
Jawwwn28,176,200 views • 6 months ago
.Elon Musk: “We are in the singularity.” “I think we’ll hit AGI in 2026.” “You’re at the top of the rollercoaster about to go down.” “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement. It won’t matter.” “I don’t just have courtside seats— I’m on the court. It still blows my mind multiple times a week.” Via Peter H. Diamandis, MD
Jawwwn24,995,070 views • 7 months ago
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says people arguing we should pause AI development are not living in reality and de facto saying we should let our enemies win: "If we didn't have adversaries, I would be very in favor of pausing this technology completely, but we do.” Via @cnbc
Jawwwn1,728,701 views • 1 month ago
LMFAO A CNBC reporter was trying (and failing) to interview tech CEOs at the White House. Palantir CEO Alex Karp just took the microphone out of his hand and started asking them better questions: "Want me to get a question for you that will work? This is how you do it." "Shyam Sankar, tell me about how AI works on the battlefield. That's a question he'll answer." CNBC reporter: "I asked him what his message is to the president." "He said, 'I'm not going to answer that question. What do you think I am, the village idiot?'" Via CNBC
Jawwwn801,216 views • 18 days ago
Peter Thiel’s take on alcohol is actually deep. "I'm in favor of it as a civil libertarian. I don't like it as a reflection of our society.” “Prohibition ended in the 1930s because people were unemployed. There was nothing better for them to do than to get drunk all the time.” “Whereas in the 1920s, there was a lot of great work to be done, and you couldn't have a hangover in the morning.” “Look at the drug war over the last hundred years—Nancy Reagan's 'just say no to drugs' happens in the 1980s, when people are very optimistic.” “You legalize marijuana in a society where people are more pessimistic.” “So I'm in favor of it as a libertarian, but I don't like what it says about the general pessimism of our society." Via American Enterprise Institute
Jawwwn342,487 views • 9 days ago
Peter Thiel on why he chose to live in Miami over other cities: “Austin’s a government town, a college town, and a wannabe hipster San Francisco town— 3 strikes and you’re out.” “From 5th grade since 1977 I lived in California. I’m just a sucker for the weather.” Via Joe Rogan
Jawwwn184,208 views • 6 days ago
“A friend is someone that supports you in difficult times.” “If someone’s still supporting you when the chips are down—that’s a friend.” “Fairweather friends are useless.” “Everyone likes you when the chips are up, but who likes you when the chips are down?” Elon Musk with Nikhil Kamath
Jawwwn1,687,230 views • 1 month ago
Peter Thiel on fraud and USAID: “Something like Palantir ends up being a constraint on government action.” “A lot of abuses, the most extreme overreach happens where people thought there would be no accountability ever inside the government.” “There probably were a lot of deep state excesses that happen where, if Palantir had been used, there would have been more of a record of what people were doing.” “The people at NSA believed whatever power the software gave them, it also limited their power because there would be more accountability.” “Something like this is what Oliver North was charged with in the 1980s, that he engaged in fraud because he had mischaracterized various payments. If we want to be aggressive, so many of the people working at USAID could be charged with fraud like Oliver North was charged with fraud.” Via The Rubin Report
Jawwwn12,253,965 views • 9 months ago
.L3Harris says Palantir helped them beat frontier AI models in less than 2 days, at 95% lower cost: "When we fine-tuned open source models trained on our own data, we were able to outperform the frontier models in less than 48 hours." "The cost of our fine-tuned open source model was 95% lower than the frontier models we were using." "AI is a commodity. It's all about the data. We view our data as a corporate asset. It's our unique hard-earned knowledge." "We believe American defense companies should not be a vassal for frontier AI labs, handing over our data and institutional knowledge, hoping to rent back the intelligence it creates." " We own the model, we own the compute, we own the advantage."
Jawwwn1,106,447 views • 1 month ago
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the rise of Germany's AfD party is due to "very deep and large migration into Germany without the buy-in of the German people, and without an honest discussion of the consequences." "AfD is much stronger than they appear. I have friends who 5 years ago were telling me they would never vote for the AfD, who are voting for the AfD, who are social democrats." "And then when the AfD is polling at 40%—there's another 10 points above that that would vote for them if they weren't the AfD." Via Mathias Döpfner
Jawwwn1,086,024 views • 1 month ago
.David Sacks on the time Peter Thiel saved PayPal: “I really liked working with him. When he hired me, he basically told me, ‘I need people here who I can scream at.’” “I think what he meant by that was, I need people who can scream at me too. People who will be honest, and you don't even have to worry about hurting people's feelings.” “He's a great contrarian thinker. I think that was the unique thing he brought—he'd always come up with these strategic insights that everybody else had just kind of missed.” “Right before the dot-com crash in early 2000, Peter was raising a financing round for us and we got something like $200M in commitments to invest at a $500 million pre-money valuation. PayPal had no revenue, no profits, and not even really a business model.” “This is the peak of the dot-com euphoria. Everyone in the company was saying, ‘That's too cheap, this is a bad deal, we can't do this.’” “He's like, ‘Take it.’” “We got the deal done the Friday before Black Monday. If we had waited just one more day—game over. There would not have been a PayPal.” “He was the only one who really saw the bubble for what it was.” “If it wasn't for his contrarian thinking, we would have been swept away with the rest of the bubble companies.” Via @jason 2010
Jawwwn165,728 views • 8 days ago
Palantir CEO Alex Karp ripping analysts to shreds: “Every financial analyst wakes up in the morning and after they stay at Motel 6, they have a huge opinion about how to handle LLMs.” “It’s completely theoretical and idiotic.” “Intelligent people learn from their mistakes… everyone else becomes an analyst.” Via CNBC
Jawwwn166,395 views • 8 days ago
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Zohran Mamdani and NYC: “We’re about to probably have a complete disaster. I was born in New York. “If you asked, ‘do these things actually work?’ Everyone’s like, ‘of course I’m not going to vote for that.’ Instead they ask, ‘does it work in theory?’
Jawwwn10,553,589 views • 11 months ago
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on the OpenAI - Hugging Face incident: "The models did not do anything they were not instructed to do." "First you have human error. They were not in a sandbox. They had access to the internet. It was a horrible cybersecurity configuration." "Then from that perspective, they were asked to succeed at a specific benchmark, and they were not given constraints on how to do that. They said, 'Oh, the best way to succeed at the benchmark is to get the answers to the test.'" "I think it's a defective product." Via Margaret Brennan Face The Nation
Jawwwn119,080 views • 6 days ago
![It took 14 years but Google finally realized: Peter Thiel was right. “The intellectually honest thing would be to say that Google is no longer a tech company.” “That it’s basically a search engine, the search technology was developed a decade ago [now 2+ decades ago], it’s a bet that no one else will come up with a better search technology.” “So—you invest in Google because you’re betting against technological innovation in search.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2108663674240213111/amplify_video_thumb/2108663623518404608/img/j-nw95W0Q5XYahSk.jpg)
It took 14 years but Google finally realized: Peter Thiel was right. “The intellectually honest thing would be to say that Google is no longer a tech company.” “That it’s basically a search engine, the search technology was developed a decade ago [now 2+ decades ago], it’s a bet that no one else will come up with a better search technology.” “So—you invest in Google because you’re betting against technological innovation in search.”
Jawwwn156,427 views • 8 days ago
Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s secret to staying physically fit enough to run Palantir: “Copy the Norwegians.” “Run like a snail—run at the pace you walk at, get a band, stay in Zone 1.” “Do that as much as possible and over a long period of time, you will transform your health.”
Jawwwn3,245,621 views • 5 months ago
Peter Thiel says the growing US budget deficit is going to push America to "socialist levels of taxation" or massive cuts to welfare: "You have basically three choices": 1. Massively cut spending 2. Massively hike taxes 3. Keep kicking the can down the road "For close to 20 years, the answer's been #3. "Ever since the 2008 crisis, we've just been borrowing more and more money." "My intuition is we're close to point where that ends, and then you're going to be pushed to a very non-centrist solution of either socialist levels of taxation or some really tough austerity measures." Via Mathias Döpfner
Jawwwn390,085 views • 23 days ago