Barry McCardel on Why Everyone Is Copying Palantir’s Playbook (And Getting It Wrong)

Barry McCardel spent years at Palantir before co-founding Hex, the AI data platform he describes as “Cursor for data.” In this conversation with Eric Newcomer, he breaks down Palantir’s business model, the truth about forward deployed engineers, how AI agents are changing data analytics and business intelligence, and why Hex is taking a different path in enterprise software.They also get into AI agents, the future of data work, the reinvention of business intelligence, whether white-collar jobs are really at risk, and the fight over Anthropic, defense tech, surveillance, and government power.

You can listen to Barry McCardel on Why Everyone Is Copying Palantir’s Playbook (And Getting It Wrong) online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Barry McCardel on Why Everyone Is Copying Palantir’s Playbook (And Getting It Wrong) is an episode from Dead Cat by Eric Newcomer | newcomer.co.

This episode is 01:02:06 long.

This episode was published on Mar 16, 2026.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Dead Cat when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.