“And on the investing front, it's like it is quality engineering, right? It's quality engineers and you can see it sort of how we set up our comp programs, sort of -- and obviously, that does mean headcount is going to grow somewhat, but really it is a quality engineers more than -- more than the quantity and you'll continue to see us do that this year.”

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“k the work that we've done in government, it's deeply operational, it's deeply valuable, and we're pretty excited about exceptional engineers getting in there under the hood and being able to see that for a change. Alex Karp: We love disruption and whatever is good for America will be good for Americans and very good for Palantir. And I think you got it exactly right. Disruption at the end of the day exposes things that aren't working, there'll be ups and down. There's a revolution. Some people get their heads cut off, like -- it's like we're expecting to see really unexpected things and to win basically, that's what we're going to do. See unexpected things, report expected things, and win. And we're planning to do that, and we're pretty optimistic about the U.S. environment. Dave Glazer: And on the investing front, it's like it is quality engineering, right? It's quality engineers and you can see it sort of how we set up our comp programs, sort of -- and obviously, that does mean headcount is going to grow somewhat, but really it is a quality engineers more than -- more than the quantity and you'll continue to see us do that this year. We did it last year, particularly in the back half and you're seeing it sort of in the numbers in Q1 and beyond. Shyam Sankar: Yes, you also, by the way, for the first time, people want to partner with us. There used to be partnership meetings were complete waste of time in BS, like largely so people could fill out a report that they met with us kind of thing, you know, like high-school dating for nerds. I met with them, perfect, I'm not going out with them. That was our experience with partnerships now. Like in the last -- even the last couple of weeks, I've had real partnership discussions because a lot of these people own verticals have to deliver. They're under a lot of pressure and people know how good our products are. And last not least, what we're really investing in my view is, w”