Palantir Founder: How a Middle-Class Kid Built a Billion-Dollar Empire

He was a middle class kid, went to public school, won the state chess championship, talked his way into PayPal and then he made himself a billionaire through hard work. That’s an American dream story that socialism and communism makes impossible.

Time codes you can click to jump to:

0:00 Intro

2:28 California gifted programs then vs now

3:45 Christian schools captured by wokeness

6:20 Why the left targets your kids

7:01 Why Robby’s kids homeschool (and why his daughter still went to college)

9:07 "If I were you I'd fix homelessness"

11:38 Does influence beat money?

13:40 Soros DA warning that got ignored

15:43 Why some billionaires are hiding

17:00 Rome's fish ponds and today's rich

18:06 Elon, Andreessen & who's waking up

21:03 Duty, honor and why he built Palantir

23:02 Communists and Islamists in America

24:26 Why he'll never leave America

27:23 Fund outcomes, not politicians friends

31:11 Make colleges pay for debt they create

34:25 Charlie Kirk’s assassination

35:24 The generation of young men who are often alone in a room with a screen

38:38 Public hangings and masculinity

39:40 Feminized society

43:23 Six kids and a toddler on an excavator

45:05 How becoming a dad changed him

47:53 Teaching a 9 year old how communists steal money from Texas

50:47 What does AI look like in 2056?

53:36 Banning AI only helps China

55:02 The future of Data Centers

57:10 The future of politics

1:00:45 Therapy culture vs the gym

1:02:43 Athens ostracized AOCs of their day

1:04:46 The Cuba lesson: fight before it's at your doorstep and it truly becomes too late

1:07:48 Saronic and unmanned warships

1:10:32 How Joe wants to die

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