Shyam Sankar

“The Academy has raised $42 million from a16z and a group of individual investors, including Adam D'Angelo, Tobi Lütke, Tony Xu, Fidji Simo, Garry Tan, Joe Liemandt and Shyam Sankar.”

“The Academy is designed to become a profitable business... The $40M raise was deliberately sized for multi-year runway... Named angel investors in the $40M Academy round.”

“Shyam, who's the CTO of Palantir today, had a phrase internally — forward deployed engineers eat pain and excrete product.”

“I talked to Sham from Palantir about this. He had just come out with his book. I think it was called Mobilize about this exact thing of increasing magazine depth.”

“I talked to Sham from Palantir about this. He had just come out with his book. I think it was called Mobilize about this exact thing of increasing magazine depth.”

“Stop breathlessly asking these model makers what they think. Go to the end user and ask the person in the factory that's using the model and ask him what he or she thinks, ask what the doctor thinks, asks what the scientists think, and start to tell those stories.”