Episode
Shyam Sankar - Celebrating Heretics - [Invest Like the Best, EP.462]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Mar 10, 2026 · 1 h 22 min
My guest today is Shyam Sankar, the CTO of Palantir Technologies. In this conversation, we explore the ideas that shape how Shyam thinks about technology, talent, and national power. We discuss the origins of Palantir’s forward-deployed engineering model and the lessons he learned from Alex Karp about identifying people's "superpowers". We also talk about Shyam’s fascination with the "heretics"…