Palantir’s CTO says building the thing is what unlocks innovation
eyishazyer · x · 2026-07-28
A quote from Palantir CTO @ssankar argues that innovation often comes from building the product first.
The post points to Google’s “Attention Is All You Need” paper as an example: it reportedly emerged from trying to get a 3% improvement in Google Translate. The takeaway is that production work creates the opportunity to innovate on the thing itself.
Related event: Transformer's Lesson: Small Goals Drive Great Innovation(2 posts)→
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