The sign is fitting: Sankar, who’s been at the company for over 18 years, is determined to help Palantir become a driving force for defense tech startups, a sector that’s been flooded with over $129.3 billion in venture capital since 2021, according to PitchBook.
“To have this class of new champions who have all cut their teeth in Tesla and SpaceX and see the world in completely different ways, it’s providing a huge amount of energy internally for us as we build for them,” he said, referring to startups like Apex Space and Castelion, whose founders hail from those companies.