Palantir: The App That Caught Bin Laden

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 913

  • @christopherwillson
    @christopherwillson Рік тому +2500

    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
      @kingstonstreet3726 Рік тому +48

      John,do you actually works for Mr Thiel?

    • @christopherwillson
      @christopherwillson Рік тому

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

    • @benjaminwoo8069
      @benjaminwoo8069 Рік тому +62

      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
      @ChadAF_YT Рік тому +26

      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
      @christopherwillson Рік тому +3

      @@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
    @marciplan Рік тому +599

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

    • @evdm7482
      @evdm7482 Рік тому +9

      What’s his role?

    • @marciplan
      @marciplan Рік тому +72

      @@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
      @DiosanXaquerry Рік тому +4

      @@marciplan or both

    • @marciplan
      @marciplan Рік тому

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

    • @mikemaldanado6015
      @mikemaldanado6015 6 місяців тому +3

      This is against the law, not disclosing info like this

  • @SlimJimZA
    @SlimJimZA 8 місяців тому +52

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

  • @JPage-fj7mb
    @JPage-fj7mb Рік тому +608

    I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed this half hour Palantir UA-cam 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
      @piyh3962 Рік тому +5

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

    • @ericmunene8521
      @ericmunene8521 Рік тому +3

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

    • @stopato5772
      @stopato5772 Рік тому

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

    • @NithinJune
      @NithinJune 8 місяців тому +4

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

    • @mi1400
      @mi1400 5 місяців тому

      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.

  • @brandonburns5365
    @brandonburns5365 Рік тому +166

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

    • @yaakovasternberg6295
      @yaakovasternberg6295 Рік тому +25

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

    • @mack2001x
      @mack2001x Рік тому +8

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

    • @mi1400
      @mi1400 5 місяців тому

      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
    @geniemiki Рік тому +71

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

    • @brianwilson7624
      @brianwilson7624 7 місяців тому +4

      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
      @NineInchTyrone 6 місяців тому

      Data analytics. Data integration

    • @MikaelArhelger
      @MikaelArhelger 5 місяців тому

      Intended

    • @jeil5676
      @jeil5676 5 місяців тому +2

      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
      @anarchosnowflakist786 5 місяців тому

      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)

  • @jefism
    @jefism Рік тому +318

    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
      @jefism Рік тому

      @@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
      @chadx8269 Рік тому

      Palintar is used by the CIA like Oceangate used NASA.

    • @evdm7482
      @evdm7482 Рік тому +2

      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
      @weltvonalex Рік тому +8

      Thank you, saved me time

    • @tuckerbugeater
      @tuckerbugeater Рік тому

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

  • @RemiStardust
    @RemiStardust Рік тому +67

    "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
      @zakgault4209 Рік тому +2

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

    • @HakanCobanoglu
      @HakanCobanoglu 4 місяці тому

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

  • @wasimshaikh1665
    @wasimshaikh1665 8 місяців тому +26

    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
      @anarchosnowflakist786 5 місяців тому +1

      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 !

  • @essm4179
    @essm4179 Рік тому +8

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

  • @Seanydd
    @Seanydd Рік тому +305

    Pltr bag holders hands up 🙌

    • @riodweber
      @riodweber Рік тому +12

      Haha. When Moon?!? 🌚

    • @Seanydd
      @Seanydd Рік тому +14

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

    • @riodweber
      @riodweber Рік тому +3

      @@Seanydd dude same. Except average cost is 8.10

    • @dialac1
      @dialac1 Рік тому +2

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

    • @darbkavon
      @darbkavon Рік тому +4

      Since Feb 2021… unbelievable company! 💎💎

  • @1337kaas
    @1337kaas Рік тому +7

    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.

  • @loldoctor
    @loldoctor Рік тому +76

    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
      @dgillies5420 Рік тому +1

      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
      @ragetobe 8 місяців тому +2

      I thought you said one small correction 😂

    • @Zaryn9000
      @Zaryn9000 7 місяців тому

      @@ragetobe For an academic, that was small

    • @ragetobe
      @ragetobe 7 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @ngana8755
    @ngana8755 8 місяців тому +6

    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?

  • @alexanderSydneyOz
    @alexanderSydneyOz 7 місяців тому +9

    Christ this sounds like a paid promotion

    • @JoeRogansForehead
      @JoeRogansForehead 4 місяці тому

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

  • @qwertzuiopqwertzuiop2107
    @qwertzuiopqwertzuiop2107 Рік тому +11

    The whole video seems like an ad

  • @RemiStardust
    @RemiStardust Рік тому +41

    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!

  • @tigercub2468
    @tigercub2468 9 місяців тому +15

    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
      @michaelrusso8466 8 місяців тому +4

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

  • @whawha9016
    @whawha9016 Рік тому +19

    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?

  • @thewhitefalcon8539
    @thewhitefalcon8539 Рік тому +86

    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
      @magnetsec Рік тому +8

      And now you're regretting not taking them seriously.

    • @thewhitefalcon8539
      @thewhitefalcon8539 Рік тому +23

      @@magnetsec Why would I regret that?

    • @sampath6924
      @sampath6924 Рік тому +2

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

  • @froggyranks
    @froggyranks Рік тому +4

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

  • @amitinvesting
    @amitinvesting Рік тому +24

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

  • @br0k3nman
    @br0k3nman Рік тому +106

    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
      @arjunarun9147 Рік тому

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

    • @meeeka
      @meeeka Рік тому

      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
      @FelixMendelson 8 місяців тому

      Basically spying on the population.

    • @lawrencefrost9063
      @lawrencefrost9063 8 місяців тому

      Uhh, you forgot your meds, son.

  • @aliveandwellinisrael2507
    @aliveandwellinisrael2507 Рік тому +30

    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.

  • @ezradja
    @ezradja Рік тому +68

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

    • @wawawuu1514
      @wawawuu1514 Рік тому

      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).

    • @teslim_fairy_tale
      @teslim_fairy_tale Рік тому +4

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

    • @leavemebe-r3u
      @leavemebe-r3u 3 місяці тому

      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.

  • @_HMCB_
    @_HMCB_ 6 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @andrewlau611
    @andrewlau611 Рік тому +19

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

  • @raymaster
    @raymaster Рік тому +2

    dreams of a modest life while starting an investment fund.. dude was rich smuck from the begining...

  • @Doggieman1111
    @Doggieman1111 7 місяців тому +3

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

  • @WWoggins
    @WWoggins 7 місяців тому +3

    What a ridiculous propaganda video... 😆 I hope the US government pays you well.

  • @jambalaya974
    @jambalaya974 7 місяців тому +3

    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

  • @Kawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
    @Kawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww 8 місяців тому +4

    I specifically pay for UA-cam Premium to avoid ads, yet here I am

  • @fahadahaf
    @fahadahaf Рік тому +31

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

  • @AgryptNos
    @AgryptNos Рік тому +61

    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
      @saintkamei Рік тому

      This!

    • @MTXSHO9732vV8SHO
      @MTXSHO9732vV8SHO Рік тому

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

    • @lawrencefrost9063
      @lawrencefrost9063 8 місяців тому +1

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

    • @AgryptNos
      @AgryptNos 8 місяців тому

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

    • @bobaloo2012
      @bobaloo2012 8 місяців тому +4

      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.

  • @mattcero1
    @mattcero1 Рік тому +5

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

  • @af.tatchell
    @af.tatchell 8 місяців тому +13

    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.

  • @jaytravis2487
    @jaytravis2487 Рік тому +7

    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
      @giannisparanis3373 Рік тому

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

    • @zbot2123
      @zbot2123 7 місяців тому +1

      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.

  • @myintmyat2697
    @myintmyat2697 Рік тому +5

    "Palantir is a dangerous tool saruman"- Gandalf

  • @stanbratch6534
    @stanbratch6534 Рік тому +227

    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
      @internet_userr Рік тому +1

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

    • @internet_userr
      @internet_userr Рік тому

      Xi jing height was tryna bite

    • @ParameterGrenze
      @ParameterGrenze Рік тому

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

    • @christopherwillson
      @christopherwillson Рік тому +11

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

    • @christopherwillson
      @christopherwillson Рік тому +1

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

  • @DushevnaSepsa
    @DushevnaSepsa Рік тому +2

    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.

  •  Рік тому +26

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

  • @mammajamma4397
    @mammajamma4397 Рік тому +23

    This is the story of every government tech contractor ever lol

  • @supercommie
    @supercommie 8 місяців тому +2

    God, what do I care about the founder? Stop creating a cult of personality around people and get to the facts please.

  • @Martinko_Pcik
    @Martinko_Pcik Рік тому +8

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

  • @obfuscateidentity2329
    @obfuscateidentity2329 Рік тому +2

    A lot of noise but no answer how did palantir find bin laden? Never explained

  • @etiennebreton7925
    @etiennebreton7925 Рік тому +14

    Thank you for covering Palantir. Proud shareholder.

    • @ipreign7513
      @ipreign7513 Рік тому +5

      also a proud enthusiast to be an intern at palantir

  • @josephfoster1987
    @josephfoster1987 Рік тому +2

    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]

  • @xvdifug
    @xvdifug Рік тому +6

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

  • @TaylorQuade
    @TaylorQuade 7 місяців тому +2

    What an utterly horrible, misleading, and biased video.

  • @izthizalrdytkn
    @izthizalrdytkn Рік тому +6

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

  • @MarioAndreschak
    @MarioAndreschak 8 місяців тому +1

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

    • @healthysocieties6221
      @healthysocieties6221 3 місяці тому

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

  • @michaelnauer7875
    @michaelnauer7875 5 місяців тому +6

    This is a Palantir commercial

    • @agranero6
      @agranero6 4 місяці тому

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

  • @baxter987
    @baxter987 Рік тому +2

    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 UA-cam

  • @daveselbow9128
    @daveselbow9128 Рік тому +4

    25 mins in & you haven't even told me what the APP is yet - this thing better be good..EDIT; I dont think your gonna tell us - im off

    • @1337kaas
      @1337kaas Рік тому +1

      It's basically a documentary about the company instead of telling us what the app does and how it's used to catch osama. Waste 30 mins on a company history.

  • @zeketorres9257
    @zeketorres9257 4 місяці тому +1

    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.

  • @fastonchisanga5194
    @fastonchisanga5194 Рік тому +7

    Wow John you are the best analyst thumbs up ❤❤I enjoy your videos

  • @adexyoung9100
    @adexyoung9100 Рік тому +1

    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

  • @PalantirVisionOfficial
    @PalantirVisionOfficial Рік тому +47

    Amazing! Thanks for the storytelling, John

    • @andyc9902
      @andyc9902 Рік тому

      Nice that the company commented. 😊

  • @HKim0072
    @HKim0072 4 місяці тому +1

    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.

  • @tmsmqwx
    @tmsmqwx Рік тому +180

    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
      @kareemelrefaay5300 Рік тому +11

      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
      @___Anakin.Skywalker Рік тому +2

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

    • @tmsmqwx
      @tmsmqwx Рік тому +10

      @@___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

    • @Jack-uv2wh
      @Jack-uv2wh Рік тому

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

    • @noahway13
      @noahway13 Рік тому +2

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

  • @cubismo85
    @cubismo85 7 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @kisfekete
    @kisfekete Рік тому +5

    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?...

  • @deenaxic9134
    @deenaxic9134 8 місяців тому +1

    Wow, I work at a high level in Palantir, and know Alex semi-personally. I am sorry to debunk this, but we're no different from any other consulting house, we bid on contracts, and we have relationships with the customers, so we do continuous business... and yes, sorry, even the military, army or whatever.. has software needs, and someone has to develop them. There's nothing clandestine about this. If you want to be mad over somethhing, you should see our finances, and how much we're billing in tax dollars. Very profitable. Are we secretative about our products? If you can get the military/etc to share everything, we'll be happy to, it's not us stopping anyone.

  • @raspberriepi
    @raspberriepi Рік тому +4

    Bin Landen is still a life in super security cell.

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 6 місяців тому

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

  • @oliver-nation4377
    @oliver-nation4377 Рік тому +27

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

    • @RemiStardust
      @RemiStardust Рік тому +13

      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
      @myce-liam Рік тому +1

      @@RemiStardust lmao

    • @oliver-nation4377
      @oliver-nation4377 Рік тому +1

      @@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
      @RemiStardust Рік тому +3

      @@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
      @oliver-nation4377 Рік тому +3

      @@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.

  • @donaldtrump6491
    @donaldtrump6491 7 місяців тому +1

    Incredible amount of yapping about an app you havent explained whatsoever, fairly sure you should be disclaiming your relation to the company, since you are advertising for them so shamelessly

  • @strictlyaesthetic9202
    @strictlyaesthetic9202 Рік тому +3

    It took an APP to catch a 6'5 individual on Kidney Dialysis ......Ok...

  • @fortuner123
    @fortuner123 5 місяців тому +1

    This vid title is about Palsntir catching Bin Laden but actually says nothing about catching Bin Laden. Thumb down.

  • @josephspruill1212
    @josephspruill1212 Рік тому +4

    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

  • @JelMain
    @JelMain 5 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @Capeau
    @Capeau Рік тому +4

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

  • @MrEvansjethro
    @MrEvansjethro Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @TheAceTroubleshooter
    @TheAceTroubleshooter Рік тому +3

    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........

  • @ravendon
    @ravendon Рік тому +1

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

  • @dialac1
    @dialac1 Рік тому +8

    Thanks for this video. I currently own a little over 10k shares of this company since I had to sell some to renovate my house. Best investment so far after Apple.

  • @ChiIeboy
    @ChiIeboy 5 місяців тому +2

    * click bait *

  • @stischer47
    @stischer47 Рік тому +9

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

  • @ameremortal
    @ameremortal Рік тому +65

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

  • @kabukalams7639
    @kabukalams7639 Рік тому +1

    This vid didn't really mention anything about how palantir helped catch bin laden. this is just a glorified palantir ad. I'm unsubscribing

  • @trendiapro6529
    @trendiapro6529 Рік тому +3

    First to watch and comment

  • @marksteele45
    @marksteele45 6 місяців тому +1

    I couldn't finish listening to this. The background music was too overbearing.

  • @secretpepperclub6160
    @secretpepperclub6160 Рік тому +36

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

    • @clavo3352
      @clavo3352 8 місяців тому +1

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

    • @secretpepperclub6160
      @secretpepperclub6160 8 місяців тому

      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

  • @TCKRDefense
    @TCKRDefense Рік тому +2

    Since Palantir is worth 32 Billion dollars, i think they are doing good. But i like Boeing and Lockheed martin more then Palantir.
    i would rather work for Boeing then Palantir.

  • @YoSmoked
    @YoSmoked Рік тому +18

    *Let's just appreciate how much of work and time he put into these videos 💘💘*

    • @oliver-nation4377
      @oliver-nation4377 Рік тому +2

      Let's not, since it lags sources as proof of the statements he makes.

    • @AfricanLionBat
      @AfricanLionBat Рік тому

      ​@@oliver-nation4377it's lacks not lags* and he's not a journalist. He doesn't have to give sources if he wants to make videos for entertainment purposes. Also, that's a bot you just replied to.

    • @oliver-nation4377
      @oliver-nation4377 Рік тому +2

      @@AfricanLionBat It is sad that you claim that he does not need to provide proof. The only time you do not need proof is about common knoledge. It is important to provide sources so he cannot spread misinformation, which is very common in undevelopped countries. (USA, or more eastern countries)

  • @nodrance
    @nodrance Рік тому +2

    "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
      @theoh2282 Рік тому

      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?

  • @bp-kl3zr
    @bp-kl3zr Рік тому +16

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

  • @Eline_Meijer
    @Eline_Meijer Рік тому +2

    Clickbait, full of lies and misleading statements. I worked for Palantir US Research, this video is a lot of BS

  • @robr177
    @robr177 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @BigRey7
    @BigRey7 Рік тому +6

    One of the most important companies in the world 🐐

  • @boneymaxfield
    @boneymaxfield 6 місяців тому +2

    Thanks for the BS stream!

  • @RoseGoldGunner09
    @RoseGoldGunner09 Рік тому +8

    This video is straight Gold!! Information gold!

  • @BEASTNYC
    @BEASTNYC Рік тому

    the background music is killing all the vibes, and cannot clearly understand what you or others talking about....

  • @Mightydoggo
    @Mightydoggo Рік тому +5

    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)

  • @wecameasdonuts
    @wecameasdonuts 8 місяців тому +1

    Palantir has literally done nothing as a company lol. A pump and dump for the owners.

  • @jimbernard3289
    @jimbernard3289 Рік тому +45

    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!

  • @ramzeechloe4866
    @ramzeechloe4866 7 місяців тому +1

    It's was ground intelligence. To push stock higher now link it to WW2 win as well

  • @palantirresearch
    @palantirresearch Рік тому +15

    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.

  • @stefpix
    @stefpix Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @ccmurray7054
    @ccmurray7054 Рік тому +16

    Excellent job once again on explaining things with great detail and making things digestible for the common man or woman. Do. Not. Stop.

    • @JohnCooganPlus
      @JohnCooganPlus  Рік тому +1

      Appreciate the comment! Will. Keep. Posting!

  • @thadimmink4128
    @thadimmink4128 7 місяців тому +1

    All of those clips from Peter talking on the Rubin Report made me cringe.