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Sam Feldman retweeted
I feel like Alex Karp doesn’t get nearly enough credit for how boldly he stood with Israel after October 7.
The next day, October 8, Palantir took out a full-page ad in The New York Times:
“Palantir stands with Israel.”
At a moment when most CEOs were saying as little as possible, Karp chose to make his position unmistakable.
And he didn’t stop at words.
Palantir sent engineers to Israel, brought its board to Tel Aviv, and continued supporting Israel’s defense.
That took conviction.
And it paid off! stock is up 1100% in 3 years.
I don't think people realize how fun the average day at Palantir is. Genuinely a lot of this.
We're hiring right now. If you believe in AI Sovereignty, shoot me a DM.
palantir.com/careers/open-po…
Sam Feldman retweeted
I sat down with a couple of the Valley Forge recipients to talk about their experiences, what they built, and maybe some Instagram conspiracies.
I was blown away that in a few months these 16 to 18 year-olds built things that improve people’s lives in their communities.
They embodied FDE’ing and the wisdom they exuded was amazing.
Join us.
We believe the Sovereign AI revolution is the most important movement since the advent of LLMs. This is a rebellion against the harvesting and migration of institutions’ and individuals’ data into the weights of closed models, only for their own knowledge to be rented back or used to replace them. It is a rebellion against the statistical tendency of these models towards the average and mediocrity. We believe every great institution is differentiated, and sovereignty is what enables that institution to own, protect, and compound its differentiation. We are the leader because we have been doing this for twenty years. Everything we have built has been in service of giving institutions maximal control over their operations, data, decisions, and their future. We are the sovereignty company. We do not exist by extracting value from our customers. We are confident enough to take on the risk of failure, and unlike any other company, we succeed only when our customers do. We are pushing the frontier and creating genuine impact in the world’s most important institutions. Thank you to all the Palantirians currently building, to our hundreds of commercial and government partners around the world, and to those who paved the way. The revolution is just beginning. Join us.
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Sam Feldman retweeted
In The World of Yesterday, published in 1942, the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, recalling the age of his youth before World War I, called it the “World of Security”: an era in which “no one thought of wars, revolutions, or revolts” and took for granted a certain safety and predictability.
That sense of security was predicated, in essence, on trust: the belief that one need not control everything on which one depends because the system will hold.
We are departing our own age of security, for parts unknown. For enterprises, what comes next must be sovereignty: the capacity to act, to choose, and to retain control over their destiny.
Sam Feldman retweeted
Good time to pull these passages from the Palantir S-1. AI is an alpha-not-beta game for operating companies. The stakes are very high. Execution quality is reordering the winners and losers in every industry.
Buy Palantir to succeed in Building your own alpha.
Countries with strong cultures are going to crush in an AI world. When so much creation becomes commoditized, taste and craft become the greatest differentiators. There's no better example than Japan.
Sam Feldman retweeted
Just came back from the Palantir event in Tokyo 🇯🇵
• The line was so long that entry took 1.5 hours 😳
• CEO Alex Karp personally came out to greet people waiting in line (seeing him up close was amazing 🥹)
• Really enjoyed talking with the Palantir team — everyone was incredibly kind and welcoming
• There were also members from the Japan team, so I think it was a great event for anyone interested in partnerships/collaboration
• The networking crowd was super diverse — I ran into around 10 founder friends there
• Their original bucket hat was cool🔥 ($75 USD). I even got the online purchase link, so DM me if you want it 👀
Really impressive energy overall.
#Palantir #PalantirTokyo
Sam Feldman retweeted
Palantir reports Q1 ‘26 U.S. revenue growth of 104% Y/Y and revenue growth of 85% Y/Y; raises FY ’26 revenue guidance to 71% Y/Y growth and U.S. comm revenue guidance to 120% Y/Y, crushing consensus expectations.
Q1 U.S. commercial revenue grew 133% y/y and adjusted operating margin was 60%.
We also generated $871 million in Q1 2026 GAAP net income, representing 53% margin and 307% Y/Y growth.
Sam Feldman retweeted
M-day was Yesterday!
America's adversaries are on the march.
In the NYT bestselling book Mobilize, Palantir CTO @ssankar and Deployment Strategist Madeline Hart issue an urgent call: America must mobilize immediately to deter WWIII.
Read on to understand why the WSJ calls Sankar "a Silicon Valley Paul Revere."
wsj.com/arts-culture/books/m…
Sam Feldman retweeted
College admissions decisions are coming out.
A lot of brilliant people are about to be told they don't fit the profile.
Their admissions system is a flawed filter, ours is not.
We are adding two more slots to the Fall 2026 Meritocracy Fellowship.
Good luck.
Sam Feldman retweeted
INTERVIEW! 🚨
The Companies Changing Warfare Forever: Palantir & Anduril Execs on Drones, AI & the Future of War
@ssankar and @traestephens join @friedberg for an incredible conversation on the future of America's military and how tech is shaping it.
(0:00) Friedberg intros @PalantirTech's Shyam Sankar and @anduriltech's Trae Stephens
(0:56) Palantir Origins: CIA Analyst Joins 20-Person Startup
(2:54) War, Deterrence & Silicon Valley's Defense Tech Taboo
(8:39) US vs China: Drone Gap, Shipbuilding & 2027 Taiwan Threat
(12:27) Anduril's Arsenal-1 Factory & Fixing US Munitions Supply Chain
(41:48) Autonomous Weapons, AI Decision-Making & Future of War
(47:15) Anthropic vs Pentagon: Ethics of AI in Combat
(50:39) Palantir Surveillance State Claims
(55:57) Anti-Defense Culture Origins: Vietnam, Snowden & Foreign Influence
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The most topical book release in a long time. What @ssankar has been championing for years has become abundantly clear over the last few weeks: America needs to rebuild our defense industrial base and we have no time to waste. Paradoxically, to prevent war we must prepare to fight.
Sam Feldman retweeted
1/ Today is the last day to preorder my book Mobilize: How the Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III.
Mobilize tells the story of American defense innovation that won the 20th century. It shows how bureaucracy broke the Pentagon—and how a Defense Reformation led by heretical heroes is bringing speed, mass, and deterrence back to our military.
This book couldn’t be timelier. The mission couldn’t be more urgent.
Join the ranks of the heretical heroes. It’s time to mobilize.
Sam Feldman retweeted
Shyam Sankar is trying to mobilize a country.
The CTO of Palantir is ringing the alarm on the necessity to resurrect America’s industrial base, win the defense technology race against other countries, and empower workers across the nation without buying into the fears of AI doomerism.
In this interview, we sat down to discuss his latest book, why he felt now was the right time to release it, and the message he hopes to communicate to the world.
Thank you to Shyam @ssankar for taking the time!
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:02 - How Shyam got to Palantir
02:19 - Palantir's Journey over the years
07:40 - Why is now the time to mobilize
09:40 - Hardware vs Software
14:57 - The Youth and Communism
20:15 - US vs China
22:24 - AI Doomerism
26:21 - Palantir's impact on how Shyam thinks of AI
29:12 - CEOs on the AI doomer case vs optimistic case
34:50 - Rapid Fire
Sam Feldman retweeted
The swag that Shyam brought for us at the recording came in an ammo box
“You lost the crazy people. They went to tech.”
@ssankar explains how the American defense industry was once built by founder figures and attracted obsessive engineers like Kelly Johnson, who built 41 aircraft in his lifetime and treated engineering like an artistic pursuit.
After the Cold War, the industry consolidated from 51 major defense primes to 5 and shifted toward conformity and financial engineering instead of real engineering. As bureaucracy crept in, the system calcified.
Colossus Members have early access to Shyam’s new conversation with @patrick_oshag on @InvestLikeBest, where he explains how that shift reshaped the defense industrial base and why he believes America needs to “get a little crazy back” to rebuild its industrial strength.
Members can listen now in their Private Audio Feed.
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Sam Feldman retweeted
Former hobbits. If you have ever considered returning to Palantir, this is the week to do it. The world is demanding every last unit of creative energy we can muster. If you return, you will be on a plane day one and committing code that matters within hours of getting your laptop. From the foxhole to the factory floor the surface area to support something incredibly meaningful, immediately, is immense. I promise you nothing other than the sense of satisfaction that comes from the purpose and intensity of the most intense deployments you ever worked on. If you have been chasing that spark, come find it again. The shire is calling.