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The State of Modern War: Palantir & Anduril Execs on Drones, AI, and the End of Traditional Warfare

2026-04-06 · 5 company · 8 thematic
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shyam sankar

Chief technology officer and executive vice president of Palantir, focused on deploying data and artificial intelligence software across government and industry.

trey stevens

Co-founded Anduril after identifying defense hardware gap at Founders Fund; early Palantir employee (employee ~13) who built government business; advocates for reindustrialization and product-led defense model.

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“By the way, there's a good modern analogy, which is Jensen and Nvidia, right? '93 graphics chips, sold them as an OE almost like an OEM type solution until here we are.”
—shyam sankar

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