Shyam Sankar - Celebrating Heretics - [Invest Like the Best, EP.462]

Introduction

PatrickMy guest today is Shyam Sankar, the CTO of Palantir Technologies. I think you'll find by listening to Shyam that the business itself, their mission and how they built it, and indeed him and his life, are completely fascinating. We talk about his entire worldview, which I find personally the most interesting.

This need to reindustrialize the United States after decades of moving so much of our production and as he would argue, therefore our learning of how to innovate and make things, off of our own shores. We talk about the history of heretics, people who have against the odds designed solutions that have driven so much of our success around the world. Please enjoy my conversation with Shyam Sankar.

Great Heretics Through History

PatrickShyam, I think the most fun place for me to begin, because it's an area that you're interested in that I'm fascinated by, is a history of people in American military lore who you call heretics. You refer to them as heretics, people like Hyman Rickover and Andrew Higgins, who designed 90% of the boats that landed at Normandy. John Boyd, who invented the OODA loop, which is one of the great biographies of a military figure that I've ever read.