Tailai🌎

building @seqholdings, fmrly us comm @palantirtech
nyc, by way of uwaterloo & windsor 🇨🇦 | views are my own

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

@victorcardenas @slashapp @RibbitCapital @khoslaventures @GoodwaterCap Must be all of the hustle @veer_ukrani is putting in :P

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

Lucas has this old-school grit and hustle that everyone should learn from ~ what makes his projects so cool isn't just the creative tech: it's the 'man on the street' searching for willing neighbors to help out, handing out paper ads to strangers... etc

[Lucas Gordon @lucasgordon]

Weekend project. NYC lines.

[Sequence Holdings @seqholdings]

Today, we're introducing Sequence Holdings - a permanent holding company bringing AI and engineering to the core of great American businesses.

Our first investment: @banksouth, a $1.6B community bank in Georgia.

We're hiring.

https://t.co/uw3vFpNpIL

[Hum @HamzaSayedAli]

Olympic gold medalist Shaun White hitting a jump over Shane Gillis in Central Park today during the snowstorm in NYC

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Melissa Snow, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

“I’ve had the honor of being the first person to wrap a child in a warm blanket, or hand them a bottle of water and a change of clothes. These are small but important acts of kindness following the moment they were recovered from sex trafficking. When the chaos quiets and the reality of what they’ve endured comes crashing down, I’ve seen fear, exhaustion and the fragile hope that follows.

Those moments of hope are why I do this work. As the Executive Director of Child Sex Trafficking Programs at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), I’ve spent more than twenty years fighting for children by building systems, supporting recoveries, and helping survivors rebuild their lives.

Over those two decades, it’s been a privilege to see those same children grow up and thrive: raising families, running businesses, and complaining about everyday frustrations like their commute to work or a bad hair day.

But in all that time, there’s never been a year like this one.

Last year NCMEC received over 17,800 reports of child sex trafficking. After Congress required tech companies to report suspected child sex trafficking to NCMEC, reports to our CyberTipline skyrocketed over 900% in the first six months. Behind each and every report is a child who might be enduring unimaginable harm. At that scale, speed becomes survival. If the right information doesn’t reach law enforcement fast enough, they can’t move - and when they can’t move, children stay trapped in the nightmare they’re enduring.

That’s one reason we are using AI to clear the noise and connect the data that matters at a scale and speed that’s impossible for humans alone. For a child trapped in trafficking, every moment counts, and manual processes we’d developed could not keep up with the new volume. Now, our AI helps save children from child sex trafficking, plain and simple.

This isn’t technology for technology’s sake. AI amplifies our expertise. It gives us the ability to see patterns, act faster, and save children who can’t wait. It’s the evolution of decades of our hard-won experience - refined with survivors, data scientists, and subject matter experts to make the invisible visible.

We saw results immediately. In milliseconds, the AI model connected scattered and disconnected clues into patterns that made sense. We alerted law enforcement. And a child was found. For that child, all this meant one less day of being trafficked. One less day in fear. And one more chance at healing. This technology changed that child’s life - and ours.

AI buys us time to stop children from being sold. And in this work, every second counts.“

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

What do we need to do for American society to learn to stand to the right and pass on the left on escalators

[Hack the North @HackTheNorth]

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[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

It's clear Palantir's core belief is that society always needs more competent, trustworthy institutions. No matter who's in office, I have absolute conviction in Palantirians to build the right thing in times of crisis. Want to do hard, vital work? It's here.

[Ted Mabrey @MabreyTed]

I am looking forward to the next set of hires that decided to apply to Palantir after reading your post. Please don’t delete it Paul. We work here in direct response to this world view and do not seek its blessing.

Our work with DHS, which has spanned the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, began in the immediate response to the murder of Agent Jaime Zapata by the Zetas in an effort dubbed Operation Fallen Hero. I believe Agent Zapata and those who have taken the thankless jobs of protecting our way of life by risking their own deserve the very best tools we can possibly give them. When people are alive because of what you built, and others are dead because what you built was not yet good enough, you develop a very different perspective on the meaning of your work.

Paul’s perspective is very similar to that of Google in 2018 when it walked away from Project Maven; the DoD’s flagship program to bring AI to warfighting. Google embraced the luxury belief that our way of life is given and that, as the best and brightest of us, they were above wrestling with the hard questions in the muck and mire of how to continue to ensure their privilege. It was much easier to sell ads. Like our DHS agents, I also believe our soldiers deserve the very best tools as they risk their lives to protect mine. The sentiment expressed below, that engineers have the luxury of working on other cool stuff so should not sully themselves with the functions that provide the bedrock of society, is something I thought we had largely left behind. Now I have a greater understanding of one of its root causes.

For those of you who are interested in joining, we are not looking for partisans at Palantir. Our mission spans administrations and political climates and our culture is one of constant disagreement. We do collectively believe that competence in our government is a prerequisite for our way of life and assume the burden of falling forward on the goal to provide it every single day. We are in a situation today where no matter the immigration policy the citizenry votes for, it cannot be executed; reality has largely been divorced from the statutes for decades now. This is first a question of competence, not politics. If the electorate cannot steer the execution of our government because the government cannot execute, our institutions lose all credibility, and the risk moves from an X debate to a much more fundamental one. We work to attach the steering wheel to the car and revitalize the institutions our societal fabric depends upon. We are looking for people who read something like this post and think it is crazy to demonize working towards a more effective government.

In order to understand if Palantir is for you, I encourage you to do your research. Read Karp’s book “The Technological Republic.” The book eviscerates the vapidity of silicon valley expressed here but also explores the positive thesis of what are the principles that actually matter when wrestling with the questions of how to empower the functioning of the state. It is perhaps the most important debate we should be having and Karp has been the leader of that conversation, so out in the open about it the book is an NYT Bestseller. I’d also encourage you to read The First Breakfast blog series that Shyam has championed; I think it is one of the foremost examples of impactful, non-partisan, civic engagement that exists in our country right now. We are very open about our views and how deeply they are reasoned if you care to read them.

We hire believers. Not in the sense of homogeneity of belief but in the intrinsic capacity to believe in something bigger than yourself. Belief is required because 1) our work is very, very hard and 2) you should expect to weather attacks like this all the time; from all sides of the political aisle. In order to stand out, build something with our software that you believein and bring it to your interview. The only way to counter these bullies is not to argue but to build.

Our work is authentically complicated. We protected the lives of special operators during failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we were the backbone of Operation Warpspeed to accelerate vaccines during Covid, we were the coordinating backbone of the Afghan withdrawal, we have enabled David to resist Goliath in Ukraine. These, and many, many other efforts too numerous to list here have been necessarily intertwined with heated political debates about the worthiness of engaging in these effort at all. My politics have not agreed with many of the policies our software has enabled. But through all of them I have held the steadfast belief that if our government institutions are not competent, politics does not matter. That is something I believe.

So if you believe that engaging with the problem of 100,000 fentanyl deaths a year, stopping human trafficking, or merely in reconnecting the laws our elected representatives create with the reality of what is implemented we believe you aren’t a bad person. If you think that “building things people want” is all there is to life I wish you all the best. There is a place for you in the society we will protect on your behalf. If you are willing to engage with the messy, messy process of “building things the people need” then you may have a home at Palantir.

[Danial Asaria @danialasaria]

I just hacked multiple @lovable 'top launched' sites

Wait—what?

In less time than it took me to finish my lunch (47 mins), I extracted from live production apps:
💰Personal debt amounts
🏠Home Addresses
🗝️API keys (admin access)
🔥Spicy Prompts

Screenshots in thread 🧵

Not as a hacker - as a curious dev with 15 lines of Python.

This isn't a breach story (I reported it), this is a wake-up call.

Be cautious which 'vibe coder' you trust with your personal data.

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

Damn once upon a time I looked up to you

Remember your roots

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Good thing this mouthpiece of Globalist rhetoric is literally ALWAYS wrong.

PS - Your cover just convinced me this will work.

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

@fnthawar Imo DOGE can be using this opportunity to drive a non-partisan narrative of getting the fed gov to provide more value to the public and to rebuild trust in institutions ~ the lack of grace and dignity they carry themselves with is what’s preventing this though.

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

@michaelfromyeg I got a French one 🙈

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

@hongyichen yankee ip = yankee dollar price

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

@aidangomez Will be home soon 🫡
Related radical idea: thoughts on a mandatory public service (think Swiss/Singaporean model) to instil that spirit of building for your community?

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

If your business only thrives off your customers making poor financial decisions, maybe it ain’t a good business 🤔

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

@morninggordo Kicking my feet in excitement rn 🥳

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

@michaelfromyeg I take back what I said last year about useful financial tools 😅

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

*Sigh* back to work 🫡
If in 2028
- wealth disparity is noticeably lower
- there are better paths for immigration, particularly for high-skilled workers
- and politics feel boring again (ie less divisive)

I’ll admit Im wrong about the guy

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

Gonna sleep and let my desk mates break the news tm 🫡

[Tailai🌎 @tailaiwang]

@BrookeaJoseph Real ones know Sunday Math @ Mr White’s