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A former chess prodigy co-founded Palantir at 22, cashed almost nothing for years, and turned that into an empire - 8VC, Addepar, Anduril, a whole university. - Peter Thiel's protege who became a company-building machine 56-min unfiltered on defense tech, AI, and where the next $100B companies come from... show more

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