I Read The Palantir Manifesto
The Corbett Report Podcast
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🗓️ 23 June 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So you know about Palantir, right? |
| 0:02.6 | The software services company that specializes in creepy AI-powered surveillance and targeting software for militaries and intelligence agencies around the world. |
| 0:12.1 | Founded in 2003 by billionaire Peter Thiel, alongside current CEO Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Nathan Gettings. |
| 0:20.3 | Palantir's tech helps detect unusual |
| 0:22.3 | or suspicious patterns in large datasets, using techniques that the founders learned working |
| 0:27.0 | together at PayPal. |
| 0:28.6 | The CIA was one of the company's earliest investors, and its only customer for a number of |
| 0:33.5 | years. |
| 0:34.6 | Eventually, other intelligence agencies like the FBI and the NSA jumped aboard. |
| 0:39.2 | And you know Alex Karp, right? The self-declared bat-sh-crazy CEO of Palantir, |
| 0:45.0 | who seems only capable of giving uncomfortable interviews and public statements, well, |
| 0:50.2 | apparently high as a kite. |
| 0:52.0 | Palleteer is here to disrupt and make our institutions we partner with the very best in the world |
| 0:58.8 | and when it's necessary to scare enemies and on occasion kill them. |
| 1:06.4 | Alex, as always, we have a lot of individual investors on the line. |
| 1:09.4 | Is there anything you'd like to say before we end the call? |
| 1:12.2 | We're doing it. |
| 1:13.9 | We're doing it. |
| 1:15.2 | And I'm sure you're enjoying this as much as I am. |
| 1:22.1 | If I was absorbing the full risk of our stupidity. |
| 1:25.9 | You were absorbing the full risk of my stupidity |
| 1:28.3 | by putting me on there and knowing all the crazy shit I was going to say, and you're going to have to |
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