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10 facts from 8 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2026
Todd McKinnon said Palantir, Snowflake and Databricks let companies pull data into one warehouse rather than connecting AI agents to many separate systems.
“Cause what they allow companies to do is instead of having to actually connect their agentic enterprise to all these separate systems, they pull it into one data warehouse.”
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Palantir grew out of fraud-prevention technology developed at PayPal.
“palantir uh as lots of listeners may know grew out of the fraud prevention technologies that they developed at paypal”
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Zhang says his co-founder previously worked at Palantir, which uses forward deployed engineers who embed with customers.
“my co-founder came from Palantir, so they actually have forward deployed engineers.”
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Zhang says a Palantir forward deployed engineer typically works nearly full time on a deal worth roughly 10 to 25 million dollars.
“What a forward deployed engineer at Palantir means is you're working on a ten, 25 million dollar deal.”
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Pereyra said Harvey's forward deployed engineering program resembles Sierra's agent engineering program rather than Palantir's model.
“I would say this is closer to, like, Sierra's agent engineering Um program.”
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Taubman says Long Lake's early team included people from Palantir, Ramp, Robinhood and Glean.
“And people from, you know, places like Palantir, Ramp, Robinhood, you know, um, some of the top glean, some of the top, um, sort of modern AI and data, uh, companies.”
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Aaron Levie says forward-deployed engineers could come from vendors such as Box, Salesforce or Palantir, from systems integrators, or from new consulting firms.
“that Ford deployed engineer could come from a vendor like a Box or a Salesforce, or, um, or a Palantir, or it could come from a systems integrator or maybe a new consulting firm.”
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The Cleveland Clinic worked with Palantir to build a scheduling tool that predicts when hospital patients are ready to be discharged or transferred.
“And what they did is they called Palantir. They came in and they built basically a kind of rudimentary scheduling tool that would tell the hospital team when patients were getting ready to go.”
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Tyrangiel says the Palantir-built tool raised the Cleveland Clinic's transfer rate and cut emergency room wait times by ninety minutes.
“They increased the transfer rate tremendously. They cut down on emergency room wait times by ninety minutes, and they were able to improve the bottom line, right?”
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Cacioppo argues forward deployed engineers only make economic sense for very large contracts like Palantir's, not for five- or six-figure deals.
“I think we're using all FDEs in a place where there's like five and six figure contracts.”
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