#190 Shyam Sankar - Chief Technology Officer of Palantir: The Future of Warfare

Shawn Ryan Show

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.9 • 38.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Shyam Sankar is the Chief Technology Officer at Palantir Technologies. A builder at heart, he’s spent over 20 years designing and deploying cutting-edge software and AI for both government and private sector partners. As Palantir’s 13th hire, Shyam helped take the company from scrappy startup to S&P 500 powerhouse. A relentless opponent of inefficiency and red tape, Shyam has made it his mission to overhaul the institutions holding America back—starting with the government. His focus? The Defense Reformation: a bold effort to transform how the U.S. military buys, builds, and fights so we can win—and keep winning. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://roka.com - use code SRS https://tryarmra.com/SRS https://BetterHelp.com/SRS https://Blackbuffalo.com https://boncharge.com/SRS https://MeetFabric.com/SHAWN https://ShawnLikesGold.com | 855-936-GOLD https://Helixsleep.com/SRS https://hexclad.com/SRS https://hillsdale.edu/SRS https://PatriotMobile.com/SRS | 972-PATRIOT https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/SRS Download the app today and use code SRS https://RocketMoney.com/SRS Shyam Sankar Links: X - https://x.com/ssankar Substack - https://www.shyamsankar.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyamsankar On The Defense Reformation - https://18theses.com First Breakfast - https://www.firstbreakfast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, plain bangers from them 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunt break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down
0:23.9	tombollah open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org
0:29.3	With AI and the AI revolution people think oh it's going to make the median person better
0:35.2	that's true but it's going to make the very best person superhuman.
0:39.3	Hot news right now, you know, the tariffs just came out yesterday.
0:42.3	I'm just curious. What are your thoughts on that?
0:44.3	When Rocket Man was rattling his saber in 2017, the Army wanted to answer the question,
0:49.3	how many tanks are there in the Army?
0:51.3	That is a three-week data call.
0:53.3	Are you serious? So Operation
0:54.8	Paperclip was our covert action to bring the very best scientists from Nazi Germany to the
1:01.2	U.S. to enable our defense program, in particular our rocket and space program. How worried do we need
1:07.2	to be about China.
1:16.7	Shamsankar, welcome to the show, man.
1:18.7	Great to be here. Thanks for having me, Sean.
1:24.7	Yeah, my pleasure. We had Joe on, what, maybe four months ago, ish.
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