How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)

Thirty percent of PMs that leave Falantier start a company. Just give us a picture of what it what the people are like. I feel like they screened really hard for a few traits in particular. One is like very independent minded people. Who weren't afraid to push back. Two is people with broader intellectual interests. What's the difference between, say, a PM at Pallinger versus a traditional PM? They were extremely careful about Only making people PMs who had first proven themselves out as forward deployment engineers. You basically could not become a PM any other way. There's two types of engineering patterns here. So there's one that works on the core products and they're a traditional software engineer. There was a different type of engineer which you sent into the field, right? You would spend maybe Monday to Thursday and you would actually go into the building where the customer worked and you would work alongside them, you would literally get a dustbow. And so that engineer became known as the full deployment. What's something that you believe that most other people don't. I think this is s somewhat contrary to view within tech.

Today, my guest is Nabiel Karechi. Nabiel is a founder, a writer, a researcher, and an engineer. He was recently a visiting scholar researching AI policy at the Mercat Center alongside Tyler Cohen. At one point he worked with the National Institute of Health and major clinical centers to create the largest medical data set in the world. He worked at the Bank of England for a bit. He was founding member and VP of business development at Go Cardless, one of Europe's biggest financial technology unicorns, and most related to the topic of this conversation, Nabil spent almost eight years at Palantir as a forward deployed engineer, working on public health projects with US federal agencies, including public health services during the Covet nineteen response. And applied AI in drug discovery.

Whether you are a fan of Palantir or hate everything that they do, they are an important And fast-growing company that is pumping out incredible product leaders, as you'll hear more than any other company in the world. So it is worth studying and understanding. I've never heard an in depth conversation digging into how they operate, build product, hire And we're able to scale from a primarily services business to a software business. So I am very excited to bring you this inside look. In our conversation, we go deep into what the heck does calendar even do?

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