Palantir: The App That Caught Bin Laden
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You should disclose the fact that you work for Founders Fund (Peter Thiel) when you make a video about a portfolio company of Founders Fund that was founded by Peter Thiel -- especially when the shiny claim that Palantir was used to find Bin Laden is just a rumor that has been disputed by people with knowledge on the matter.
John,do you actually works for Mr Thiel?
@@kingstonstreet3726 He does. He disclosed it in the video posted on July 25.
Peter likely employs a decent number of content creators in one way or another. He's the Kaiser Sose' of the internet lol.
As a US military operator I cannot say too much, but palantir 100% helped to catch bin laden! They were not the only thing, but they did help in the apprehension of osa bin laden
@@ChadAF_YT And I'm Jason Bourne. Don't come in here waving around who you are or aren't without proof. Going by your current occupation, age and the fact that you're a Palantir shareholder (which you conveniently chose not to tell us about), it's fair to assume you're just some random wannabe talking their book.
You should add a disclaimer in these videos about your role at Founders Fund, John
What’s his role?
@@evdm7482 He's an EIC there. If you're making content about your portfolio companies you should put a disclaimer up front or at the end :)
@@marciplan or both
@@DiosanXaquerry To John's credit, though, he started doing that now :)
This is against the law, not disclosing info like this
It's a legal requirement to state when it's sponsored content. Food for thought
I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed this half hour Palantir TH-cam Ad! Strange to see it, given that I have YT Red. If it were, hypothetically speaking, an unbiased review of Palantir and its use in military/government projects, rather than an ad, we might've seen some negatives. So relieved we don't have to be burdened by anything that heavy!
Here's a negative - they've never been in the black
@@joelw2413 Why . I live in East Africa and the US democracy spreading has been fucking us in Sudan Congo Tigray and Somalia
Are you sure it is Us democracy, or European French democracy, or Ruzzianazi 'democracy?@@ericmunene8521
it’s called youtube premium not red
it hasn’t been called youtube red for like 5 years
Its a mediocre product infact showing how SQLServer and Oracle suck... i have seen decade old YT videos of palantir too and then they were better and less spiced than binladen cooked up story and were true to real examples... their example was good like how sanctioned regimes move around around heir ocean cargo ships and how bits of info on ship could track its forged movements... its basically a NoSQL non RDBMS non structured data mining tool which anyway got developed by others too thanks to coincident back-to-back-sudden deaths of Hi5, Orkut, MySpace at the hands of facebook because of its shift from obselete model of like 5mb hotmail and ~50mb gmail ... and facebook itself working as tech house not just dating etc site... this explosion of no-structured (chats, friends, friends of friends) data excelled new companies to fly past palantir.
Palantir: The app that caught Bin Laden 😂😂😂
This guy must own stock in the company 😂
Apparently he does indeed have an undisclosed interest. See comment from @marciplan.
he is an EIC for Founders Fund which is owned by Thiel i believe
Its a mediocre product infact showing how SQLServer and Oracle suck... i have seen decade old YT videos of palantir too and then they were better and less spiced than binladen cooked up story and were true to real examples... their example was good like how sanctioned regimes move around around heir ocean cargo ships and how bits of info on ship could track its forged movements... its basically a NoSQL non RDBMS non structured data mining tool which anyway got developed by others too thanks to coincident back-to-back-sudden deaths of Hi5, Orkut, MySpace at the hands of facebook because of its shift from obselete model of like 5mb hotmail and ~50mb gmail ... and facebook itself working as tech house not just dating etc site... this explosion of no-structured (chats, friends, friends of friends) data excelled new companies to fly past palantir.
"The App That Caught Bin Laden"
25:24 And then he admits it's 'actually hard to say for sure'
Hey, but it's a great click-bait title! And the Palantir stock bros wil LOVE it!
Seriously! 😳 Thanks, it just saved me 10 minutes of time.
This was what I was going to write if you hadn’t . Pure click and bait!
27 minutes in and in missing the part where it was actually used. Well played. Cant wait for "Google Earth, the app that helped kill ISIS"
@@adamk.7177 oh let's argue semantics, "Google Earth, the app that helped find ISIS.", This is clickbait at its absolute finest. "This Channel: The Channel that wasted 30 minutes of everyone's lives" you don't make a claim without supporting that claim unless you're clickbait. I mean I did rub 39 marathons in a row without a single rest, I'll expect your support when I release that video but I'm currently typing during #40.
You won't believe what happened during Marathon 37! Click to find out more!
Palintar is used by the CIA like Oceangate used NASA.
Oh dang, Isis ends at Division across the st from Rainbow grocery in SF. If it wasn’t for Jeff I woulda never known about google
Thank you, saved me time
They knew Bin Laden was in Iran and they shipped into Pakistan for the kill. @@floppathebased1492
Christ this sounds like a paid promotion
He works for Peter Theil lol
“One of a kind CEO”
"They spent long nights cuddling and snuggling after agreeing on all points of an argument."
The whole video seems like an ad
The photo at 17:50 is not of Licklider but of British actor Sir Michael Caine from the 1967 spy movie 'Billion Dollar Brain' playing the role of Harry Palmer.
Let's be honest: You could make any mundane, boring company seem exciting with this techy, pulsating track in the background. Throw in a bunch of stock clips of computer code flying by, rotating dolly shots, some drone footage et voila!
Charmin toilet paper is exciting!
I'm late to the game here..
Bin Laden was killed in May 2011, well before Palantir was widely liked or used by the military. While it was in service, there were a lot of gripes, and it wasn't an enterprise tool like it is now. Nor was it cloud-based, which meant each user needed a dedicated laptop, which limited market penetration.
I was using Palantir in 2010-ish and 2012 in Afg. Their product came on a Dell 6500 dual-HD laptop, which always crashed (in my exp). It wasn't popular because the UX wasn't intuitive and had to compete against many other analytical tools. At that point in the wars, too many tools were available, and analysts stuck with what they knew, making adopting new products and ideas harder.
It was in 2015/2016 that Palantir revamped its entire product and hosted it in the cloud with a better UI, drastically improving the UX and leading to service/enterprise-wide adoption. They also sued the Army, which forced the military to reevaluate Palantir's merits. Luckily, Palanir was/is superior, as demonstrated against ISIS, and more and more people were using it.
In other words, it's unlikely that Palantir played an outsized role in the intelligence community or the prosecution of UBL. Based on my recollection, the hunt for UBL was more likely done on various platforms than just one. Palantir might have been in the mix, but probably not as the lead. That said, it definitely played an outsize role in the killing of Bagdadi, the leader of ISIS, because it is the premier software tool to make sense of the battlefield today.
Literally the only helpful comment on this 30 minute Palantir advertisement.
People, that same app could be use against you too. Beware!
That 'could' is probably already an 'is being'. Fuck mass surveillance by governments (and cheers to Edward Snowden). I admit I haven't watched this video (yet), but the title suggests a pro-Palantir propaganda story. Note I use propaganda in the neutral sense of the word, with propaganda meaning just spreading information to the benefit of an entity such as a (political) organization, an individual and their goals or: a computer program (such as one that can be used to mass-surveille people). Meaning just because it's propaganda, it's not necessarily inaccurate or full of lies, just that it disseminates information to the benefit of somebody or something. I'm guessing this video does not contain any major inaccuracies or even outright lies, but again, judging from the title it sounds like it makes the existence and use of Palantir, in the hands of the government, more palatable to the masses (I hope I'm wrong). Regardless of whether that's the video's/video creator's intention, intention doesn't matter a bit. What matters is what people will take away from this video and I hope I'm wrong and it ain't "Yeah, maybe mass surveillance can be okay after all, just in some cases, I guess? Bin Laden was a really bad guy after all!" And that's how they get their foot in your door.
Bin Laden's crimes, as horrible as they were, don't amount to even a drop in the bucket of poverty, murder, terror, exploitation, systemic oppression, intentional suffering and all other forms of violence caused by most governments in the world, regardless whether they're openly evil dictatorships or the so-called liberal democracies of the West (actually, the latter are even worse, speaking in honeyed tongues while supporting and collaborating with some of the world's most openly evil governments (example: Germany, a liberal, parliamentary "democracy" and its support for Erdogan and weapons deals with Saudi-Arabia).
Also I hate how they took the name from Lord of the Rings. While Tolkien was conservative (and outright racist), I dunno if he had been down with mass-spying on people employing technology (which the rapid, unchecked spread of was something Tolkien was critical of, after all, what with how Sauron's armies represent industrialization and the destruction of England's beautiful countrysides) on a scale somebody like, say, Stalin could have only dreamt of (and had he been down wit it, well, fuck his view on the matter then).
It has been used already against tons of people, cos they and they only decide who’s criminal and who’s innocent🙄
It is what it is. Whatever the military has the police have. Whatever the police have the cartels and criminals have. Just live life and mind your business.....that's all we can do.
Pltr bag holders hands up 🙌
Haha. When Moon?!? 🌚
Held from 7$ to 15$ not selling until 100 👍🙏
@@Seanydd dude same. Except average cost is 8.10
I don’t think I can consider myself a bag holder. I wish I had money to buy more
Since Feb 2021… unbelievable company! 💎💎
"Palantir is a dangerous tool saruman"- Gandalf
Total click-bait title & the video Looks like a paid advertisement for Palantir.
I specifically pay for TH-cam Premium to avoid ads, yet here I am
A half-hour long video about Palantir and not one mention of Edward Snowden's revelations? 🤔
Thank you for covering Palantir. Proud shareholder.
also a proud enthusiast to be an intern at palantir
His dream of a “modest life” constituted formulating an overseas investment firm. Super modest LOL
The casual multi millionaire lifestyle over in Europe 😄
The cool thing about the Palantir story for me is that two college roommates (I attended Stanford) who were on completely opposite ends of the spectrum politically still found value in their relationship, and how that value paid dividends years later. I recently watched some videos concerning Anduril's growing pains as a defense contractor. Hopefully the ties will begin to loosen and we can as a nation begin to utilize our talent more efficiently with respect to national defense.
That's how politics should be utilised and used if one party took over they will build a hell or will crumble into nothing we need both sometimes to oppose each other and sometimes to refine and polish the other ideas and fill the holes that will enivetably appear
How did you pay for Stanford tuition? Or did your mom or papa pay for it?
@@___Anakin.Skywalker Well, if you're not rich but you go to a rich school, it's actually easier to afford because the school has plenty of money in their financial aid fund and they'll kick in the difference. This was 44 years ago, but after Pell Grants I believe I came out of pocket for about $700 my freshman year. It still holds true - my daughter graduated from Penn and we didn't pay much for her. On the other hand, my son went to Miami and that was an entirely different scenario
Two millionaire investors team up to make billions spying on you.
It is the unlearned masses that fight with each other and make enemies, and not friends.
Ohhhh, that makes complete sense now.
Osama had found one of the Palantiri somewhere in the Middle-East, and hoping to be able to utilize the object's power to aid him, he made the mistake of using it.
The moment he placed his hands upon the orb and gazed in, he was immediately under attack by a powerful force. He heard horrific sounds: Bush struggling to say "nuculur" mixed with sounds of country music and the dropping of bombs. None of it could compare to what he saw next. What saw him.
Immediately from the darkness of the orb flashed a single horrific red eye, an eye that could only belong to that most heinous of infernal beings. The eye of Dick Cheney turns its burning gaze toward an Osama powerless to remove his hands from the looking glass at this point. *"III SSEEEEEE YYOUUUUUUU!"*. He franticly tried to relinquish the sphere but alas it was too late.
The enemy knew, and the Black Riders would soon glide through the streets of Abottabad in search of the only thing they seemed to care about.
The ring. The one terrorist ring to rule them all.
Bless you my dear, I needed the giggles today
Calling a Landian Acc like Peter Thiel a libertarian is just plain hillarious
This is the story of every government tech contractor ever lol
Now we're calling everything an 'algorithm'. Its like we looked into space and threw away terms like 'planet' and "sun" and now call everything 'gravity-masses'.
Back in the day we'd call these 'Computer Programs' and even that was a little vague an not entire appropriate. Maybe a 'Software Suite'?
'Apps' were small programs like widgets with highly specific applications and limited configuration options.
algorithm sounds fancier beccause most people don't know the definition of the word.
Hi, Computer Scientist here, "algorithms" can be thought of as the methodologies used within computer programs to accomplish specific goals. In this case they developed methodologies at PayPal to detect fraud and those same methodologies might be useful for catching terrorists. In both cases you're generally looking for abnormal behavior.
The entire AI craze right now centers around a single algorithm, Large Language Models, or LLMs.
Bin Landen is still a life in super security cell.
He’s splattered all over the sand now dude.😂
So Palantir was developing software in an agile method way before Agile became popular.
Lol right
Palantir found him, but he was where he was anticipated to be, which allowed his execution under terms you'll discover once the limitations run out.
This is a Palantir commercial
Yes it is. I made a similar comment about this myself.
Thank you for putting out a historically accurate summary of the company without the hype or obvious toxic bias in either direction. Well done sir. The shire accepts your membership application.
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Came here to write this comment but you did it better and more concise.
Without the hype? LOL. Did you not read the BS title?
@@Morribyte Obviously, but they can do that without bullshitting.
Wow John you are the best analyst thumbs up ❤❤I enjoy your videos
PLTR has a 60 PE. It will never make a lot of money. It will always have a limited customer base. Unless PLTR goes rogue, the US government will limit their client base.
This guy sounds like he's getting paid by these companies to do this
It took an APP to catch a 6'5 individual on Kidney Dialysis ......Ok...
sounds like someone's holding some PLTR bags...
I don't remember that he did the little beg routine about hitting the LIKE button and subscribe, etc. And I just subscribed. When u put out a quality product, you don't have to beg.
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen about Palantir! A job well done!!!
I always get excited when you upload a new video. Your videos are the only ones I never skip through. Your storytelling ability is spot on!
❤
Edit: 😔
i love hearing that!
dreams of a modest life while starting an investment fund.. dude was rich smuck from the begining...
Working in healthcare data, I get why most ppl and average investors don’t understand the company but the value and market they serve are painfully obvious to me. It really didn’t take much of a leap to understand.
And once ppl get over that hurdle, being able to stomach a free discourse, government serving but civil liberty protecting persona is where the division comes from the most.
Digging your channel's concept. 🔥
@@markusmatthew7044 thanks! 🙏
A lot of noise but no answer how did palantir find bin laden? Never explained
if you like this comment I know you’re a real one 😂 thanks for covering palantir jon!!!!
I see you 👀
@@rohw0016😂😂
I'm glad you exist because I was worried that the tech industry wasn't killy enough. Good to know someone is still flying the flag for the military industrial complex. [sarcasm]
If you don’t know who the marketing department is, you are the marketing department!! 😂
Congratulations to the owners for choosing the outright most ominous, dangerous thing from Tolkien's mythos as the name of their company. One that turned a strong-willed wizard (Saruman the White) into a henchman of Sauron.
I guess at least they are not fomenting illusions about where this all leads?...
I wonder when usa Companies in the usa get support from the government, its not a big deal but when china companies get support from their government. What do we call it
Thanks for this video. I currently own a little over 10k shares of this company since I had to sell some to renovate my house. Best investment so far after Apple.
Ah yes, the problem with software and systems that are "inherently obvious" to engineers but gibberish to end users.
I see Michael Caine was involved too, at 17.50.
I'm confused, the UI that is showing throughout the video (for example 30:45) is a UI of a deployment tool. It does say Palantir, but it has stages, references to kubernetes, container deployment details, grafana stack details, ... It seems more like UI of a system that is used to deploy Palantir.
When creating videos like this, that resemble a documentary, you gotta include your sources.
Pssst, nah. Just take an exciting music track, something techy, futuristic, heart-pounding. Then use clips of the founders making claims and tell the story as 'fact'. Anything the founders say, take it at face value. Sure it's a total black-box multi billion dollar publicly traded company where it's in the founders' interest for the market to hype the value, allowing the founders to cash-out without having to deliver on these promises...
Unless there are tons of companies who renew their contracts with Palantir, investors would be smart to stay on the sidelines. Always ask yourself if you're the sucker in this 'investment' equation.
@@RemiStardust lmao
@@RemiStardust yor comment feels like if you took my comment and asked ChatGPT to give a counter answer, which is why it makes nu actual sense. Learn to write your own comments, and if that was your own, pls next time read the comment you are replying to.
@@oliver-nation4377 Oh sadness. Are you a Palantir investor who finds it offensive when sb points out the complete 'trust-me' nature of the 'investment'?
If so, why do you care about sources in this faux documentary promo piece?
It's a technically well-done piece. Most people will think it's good and Palantir bulls will love it. Only the few serious people, especially those who've lost money in the stock market before, find this a dubious video.
@@RemiStardust first of all. Stop using ChatGPT. Second, the reason sources matter is because you should never "state" anything you are unable to actually proove. And by thst you also need to cross check your sources.
May I ask, was your audio overdubbed / recorded after the video was shot? I'm incredibly curious as something about it is telling me that must have been the case, but I can't put my finger on exactly why.
Ta dude!
I just love the quality of production of your videos. Plus the quality of research and delivery of the information made me activate the notification bell for your channel. And your channel is one of 5 for which I did that 😊
Thank you and greetings from Germany ✌🏼
Bwah ha.. ha ha.
"And then, they did everything they could to make a digital footprint, so it could be treated as data, and searched on... wait, they didn't? You mean, this is bunkus?"
Yeah. Bunkus.
One of the most important companies in the world 🐐
All of those clips from Peter talking on the Rubin Report made me cringe.
i watched 15 minutes of this video and i have no idea what the point of what i'm watching is.. this is complete garbage
Why was the body never seen? Why would a desert dweller want to buried at sea? Too many unanswered questions.
Why what he wanted would be taken in consideration in the first place?
A great video.
Sometimes the background music was a little loud and distracting though.
I suspect an informer was more important than Palantir.
Exactly.
The next facebook wasn't a social media company it was Tesla and the next Tesla won't be a electric car company.
idk, but i have a really weird feeling, because i still have no real idea of what palantir is doing. They are connecting databases and are able to visualize the data, such that humans are able to more easily spot patterns etc. But that is not really that complex right? In which way is palantir superior to its competitors? I've seen multiple videos about palantir, but still no video that really gives me any significant information about them from a technical standpoint. How can you just go to Boeing, "take a look" at their database and magically solve most of their problems?
I don’t understand it as well. I guess only math and computer science pros can really understand it
Wasn't it Airbus? Were you really listening?
Yeah, you're right, I hadn't the slightest notion as to how this all begun.
I would have sold Palantir to Russia, China, Israel, Honduras, Iran and see how quickly the US Army would change their minds.
Great Palantir Ad, bravo 👏
*Let's just appreciate how much of work and time he put into these videos 💘💘*
Let's not, since it lags sources as proof of the statements he makes.
@@oliver-nation4377it's lacks not lags* and he's not a journalist. He doesn't have to give sources if he wants to make videos for entertainment purposes. Also, that's a bot you just replied to.
@@AfricanLionBat It is sad that you claim that he does not need to provide proof. The only time you do not need proof is about common knoledge. It is important to provide sources so he cannot spread misinformation, which is very common in undevelopped countries. (USA, or more eastern countries)
13:40 this is the true origin story of what plantir is now, vs what it was before this point
21:15 wrong!
Most of the time the issue Government has with Private companies is trust and then later greed. No question that often the private sector can efficiently build software or cutting edge tech in general. Its the later problem of cost overruns, monopolistic behavior trying to ensure shareholder wealth and executive profits.
Fantastic video, thank you so much. Palantir seems like the real deal in terms of creating real value out of large data sets and AI.
Take a shot for every time he says Palantir
Audio is way too compressed
Those who believe that an app played a significant role in capturing Bin Laden are gullible people. It was Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistani doctor, who assisted the US in the operation, not a weak American app that would be of no use to the Russians.
It took me awhile but this is one long commercial
Libertarians and socialists can both agree on having a surveillance state.
Wow, this is world class story telling...🔥
Great content.
I didn’t know this history.
Palantir can get Osama who is a thousand miles away but couldn't find CDNG's El Mencho who is your next door neighbor. Something just don't cut it with me.
I wonder if Palantir and Anduril are related to each other. Not just only because it is linked to Tolkien's works... but it is now connected to technological and military gambles today.
They are, check the Wikipedia articles for both companies. This video is one big advertisement for one of them.
Palantir and especially their owner should be looked at with a critical attitude. Despite the success of their product, there are many moral and ethic questions to be answered.
Did you just say “their owner?” Lmao. What moral and ethic questions needs to be answered that haven’t been answered already?
I think those questions are answered when receiving lvl 6 clearance within the most powerful government in the world.
@@keithfrantz5455 Peter Thiel is the largest shareholder, so I used owner as a synonym, which is not technically true. For palantir to work effectively, the government needs to establish data retention (if not already established). This is considered highly critical by data security experts and in my opinion for a good reason. Misuse of this data can, will and has already happened. The best prevention is to not collect this data in the first place.
It’s pretty easy to “catch someone” when you pay for the house they’re living in
This story is just as difficult to listen to as it was to sell the software to the government.
Great job! If you could lower the music volume a bit, this would be perfect.
I have another correction! at 17:50 that's a pic of Michael Caine! it's a still from the movie "Billion Dollar Brain" starring him.
"Zero Dark Thirty" ....because 24 hour clocks aren't already clear enough on when it's nighttime for the military? 🤔🙈
Bold move in hiring Taika Waititi as CEO of a Government interfacing tech company...
He also directed thor
00:00 The story of Palantir, a secretive company that helped catch Osama Bin Laden
04:30 Palantir was founded to sell software to the US government for counter-terrorism purposes.
08:38 PayPal's CTO built a program to solve credit card fraud, which later inspired Palantir's software.
12:39 Palantir's success in government contracts
16:48 Palantir's success in the military market was due to its strategy of introducing its product to soldiers directly.
20:37 Palantir sued the US government and won the right to participate in the bidding process.
24:24 Palantir became the government's go-to company for big data analysis after its involvement in the Bin Laden case.
28:04 Palantir's work with governments during the pandemic and their focus on AI positions them for continued growth.
Exceptionally well done.
AMERICA, AMERICANS!!
What would Italians, Germans and Britons think if the French would claim "We are the only Europeans"?
I don't understand why Unitedstadians think they are the only Americans???
America is a CONTINENT with 35 sovereign countries and over one billion people.
Unitedstadians do not speak for the interests of all Americans! Haiti was already a state 100 years before the first USA city, Jamestown was founded! Haiti, Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, etc. are all American countries.... And have been American for over a hundred years more than the Unitedstadians! So this means that any Mexican is as American as any Argentinian... and vice versa! What do we call the people of United States??? In Latin America, they are called UNITEDSTADIANS!
I love the United States, this is my country where I grew up and where I live.
Excellent thrilling narration. Kudos!
It is selfish and unethical to do a reenactment to take advantage, because it is a mockery of serious events
Palantir is all smoke and mirrors.
Market capitalization of Palantir (PLTR)
Market cap: $32.87 Billion
As of July 2023 Palantir has a market cap of $32.87 Billion. This makes Palantir the world's 551th most valuable company
WHEN YOU WENT PUBLIC IN 2020 KNOWING LAWSUITS THEN VIOLATES THE SEC RULES
Im glad i read ghe comments before wasting half an hour viewing a biased ad
The Music is so very annoying. I had to give up half way through. Generally though this 'John Coogan' channel is of good high quality content-wise, so I am a subscriber.
So Palantir and now Anduril. LOTR resurgence in Defense Tech
Don't discount and forget the important intel gleaned by detainee interrogations. They were pivotal.
Regarding that thing 90-sec. from the end about already doing AI for a decade-plus before the current mania, the company was less noticed earlier on because they weren't making any money.
Please take out or reduce the volume of the background music. It makes it difficult to understand what people are saying.