What has Palantir done?

The company’s tech helped locate Osama bin Laden in 2011 and is being used to trace COVID-19 infections, track medical supply chains, and even predict outbreaks in pandemic hot zones. Think of the company as a search engine for deep analysis of petabytes (or millions of gigabytes) of data.

Why is Palantir special?

Since every client has a completely unique set of data sources, Palantir deployments are incredibly high touch and require a high level of customization. The reason Palantir is able to charge such high prices in their contracts is that their services are an incredibly high value add for their customers.

Who founded Palantir?

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Billionaire Peter Thiel and his Palantir Technologies Inc. co-founders fired back in Delaware on Friday at claims that their “class F” stock—a “flexible” security with voting power adjusted to give them a 49.99\% say in any decision—illegally made them the company’s “emperor for life.”

Who is the founder of Palantir?

Two of Palantir’s cofounders: CEO Alex Karp, left, and venture capitalist Peter Thiel. Based in Palo Alto, California, Palantir was founded in 2003 by a group of PayPal alumni and Stanford computer scientists, including CEO Alex Karp and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.

Is Palantir about to go public?

Palantir, first launched in 2003, has been secretive for most of its existence. Rumors about its plans to IPO have been around since last year, but Business Insider and others reported last month the $20 billion company is preparing go public as early as September.

Is Palantir the biggest tech IPO ever?

Palantir, a secretive tech company started by members of the ‘PayPal mafia’ with close ties to the Trump administration, could be one of the biggest tech IPOs ever. Take a closer look at how it makes money

Why is Palantir so secretive?

Palantir has also been notoriously secretive due to its work with government, policing, and military organizations like the Department of Defense, the Army, the Marine Corps, the FBI, and the CIA. Here’s everything you need to know about the company, which could go public in the next month or two.