Sebastian Caliri

Investment Team
San Francisco, CA
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Sebastian leads 8VC's healthcare team, investing in and building health-IT and health services businesses, alongside work in other sectors of the economy.

Prior to 8VC, Sebastian led the healthcare division at Palantir where he helped numerous insurance, pharmaceutical, provider, and government clients solve their hardest data analysis problems.

Outside of work, Sebastian is an avid reader, amateur artist, and loves long runs on the Embarcadero and backpacking in the Sierra.

Sebastian completed a year of the MD program at Stanford University and holds a BS and MS, magna cum laude, in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry from Yale University.

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Posts
Oct 31, 2024

The AI Services Wave: Lessons from Palantir in The New Age of AI

Last month, the first company I co-founded, Palantir, joined the S&P 500. For most of 20 years, the naive mainstream view of Palantir was that it was a “glorified consultancy” – a services firm and not a real tech innovator building SaaS “products” or “platforms”. To dismiss Palantir early on was short-sighted, given they’d hired some of Silicon Valley’s top tech talent, but it was based on a factual observation: unlike most software businesses, many of our engineers spent significant time working alongside our customers. We called this team “Forward Deployed Engineers”, and they obsessed over the intricacies of our customers’ daily work, business models, and pain points. 

Posts
Oct 31, 2024

The AI Services Wave: Lessons from Palantir in The New Age of AI

Last month, the first company I co-founded, Palantir, joined the S&P 500. For most of 20 years, the naive mainstream view of Palantir was that it was a “glorified consultancy” – a services firm and not a real tech innovator building SaaS “products” or “platforms”. To dismiss Palantir early on was short-sighted, given they’d hired some of Silicon Valley’s top tech talent, but it was based on a factual observation: unlike most software businesses, many of our engineers spent significant time working alongside our customers. We called this team “Forward Deployed Engineers”, and they obsessed over the intricacies of our customers’ daily work, business models, and pain points. 

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