The vibe shift arrives at Stanford.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

Stanford University has long been a feeder for the neighboring tech industry, with graduates

often heading to a brand name of Silicon Valley, like Google or Meta.

But the times they are a changing, according to writer Jasmine's son.

She reported recently for the San Francisco standard that building tech for the military has become cool on campus.

One student, Divya, said her most effective and moral friends are now working for Palantir.

Sun says it's a big shift from when she attended Stanford in the late 2010s.

2017 to 2019 was, it was during Trump's first administration.

And so there was a movement called hashtag no tech for ICE that was sort of an alliance

between a lot of campus activists, Stanford and elsewhere, and an advocacy group called

Mi Hente that worked on immigrant issues.

And they were working with student activists on campus to do things like flyer career

fairs telling people not to work for Palantir because of their contracts with ICE, not to work

for Salesforce because they're contracts with the CBP. And even when I talk to Divya, you know,

like she acknowledged very much, like even in her few years at Stanford, sort of the vibe had

shifted around how folks talked about Palantir.

And this is something that I've actually noticed from early career folk who I know two students I

know who, when they were undergrads, would never work for Palantir. Now that there are a few years

out of their careers, they're considering that. Yeah, tell me more about the shift that you

reported on at Stanford.

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