Inside Palantir, Silicon Valley’s Most Secretive Unicorn
▻https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/inside-palantir-technologies-peter-thiel-alex-karp.html
Techie Software Soldier Spy Palantir, Big Data’s scariest, most secretive unicorn, is going public. But is its crystal ball just smoke and mirrors ? Back in 2003, John Poindexter got a call from Richard Perle, an old friend from their days serving together in the Reagan administration. Perle, one of the architects of the Iraq War, which started that year, wanted to introduce Poindexter to a couple of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who were starting a software company. The firm, Palantir (...)
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