Palantir’s Valuation, VC’s Go To Washington and Much More | E2065
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 24 December 2024
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Todays show: Jason & Alex discuss Palantir’s valuation, possible opt-in empire building for the United States and the incoming presidents appointments pulling from tech and VC.
(0:00) Jason and Alex kick off the show (0:22) Approaches to population growth: immigration and opt-in empire building (1:40) Live streaming and show schedule (2:09) Introduction of Alex Wilhelm and seasonal greetings (3:41) Jason's Twitter controversy regarding Palantir (7:06) Palantir's financial analysis and market comparison (10:27) Oracle.TWiST listeners can try OCI and save up to 50% on your cloud bill at https://www.oracle.com/twist (13:41) Deeper dive into Palantir's valuation and growth (18:18) Memestock caution and market dynamics (19:03) DevSquad. TWIST listeners can get 10% off at http://devsquad.com/twist (20:21) Jeff Bezos' fake wedding and Michael Saylor's Bitcoin strategy (22:17) Cultural takes on weddings and Michael Saylor's media attention (22:55) Defense tech: Palantir and Anduril's consortium (27:18) The rise of entrepreneurs in defense technology (28:45) Ken Howery's ambassadorship and US geopolitical strategies (29:49) Ramp. TWiST listeners, get $250 when you join Ramp today at https://www.ramp.com/twist (31:13) Funding ambassadorships and their significance (34:10) "Opt-in" empire building for US growth (42:40) Government's recent strategic hires (43:45) Evaluating new government hires and their impact (50:30) AI policy advisory and Surem Krishnan's role (56:09) Investment accreditation and securities law evolution (1:02:15) Modernizing securities laws for new assets (1:03:59) Emil Michael appointed under secretary for research and engineering (1:06:45) Michael Kratzios and emerging technology assistance
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| 0:00.0 | I think Opt-in Empire Building is a great goal for our nation. I think our goal should be to get |
| 0:06.3 | to a billion Americans and have America be the most populous and the most innovative country |
| 0:11.6 | in the world. Now, how do you get to a billion from 350 million? You got to triple. And there's |
| 0:17.2 | a certain amount of population growth through babies, but let's just say people aren't making a ton of babies. |
| 0:22.8 | So there's two ways to accomplish this. |
| 0:24.4 | You got to immigrate people or you got to do a little empire building. |
| 0:28.4 | Opt in, of course. |
| 0:29.8 | Maybe there's countries in Europe that would want to be. |
| 0:32.6 | Maybe Greece wants to be part of the United States. |
| 0:34.5 | Wouldn't that be great for me if Greece was the 51st state if they wanted to? Why Greece? Because I'm Greek. Because we created man. |
| 0:45.7 | I mean, we created democracy. America perfected it. This would be full circle for me. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm so sorry. I did not know your heritage. So I'm like, |
| 0:53.3 | Gallicana is struggling demographics. Where have you been? Famous debt loan. I'm like, dude, I'm not picking |
| 0:58.3 | Greece. That's why I think it's an interesting concept. This week in startups is brought to you by |
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