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358 points timsehn | 1 comments | 30 Mar 20 20:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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peteforde ◴[31 Mar 20 03:02 UTC] No.22734564[source]▶
Only 39 days since the last "GitHub for data" was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375774

I'll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime "big data" hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data contests with The Economist - but at the end of the day, we couldn't find anyone with an urgent problem that they were willing to pay to solve.

I wish these folks luck! Perhaps things have changed; we were part of a flock of 5 or 10 similar projects and I'm pretty sure the only one still around today is Kaggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4

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kidintech ◴[31 Mar 20 06:30 UTC] No.22735358[source]▶
Palantir is successful as well, but no clue what the hateboner on HN for them is, since it never even gets mentioned in these threads.
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th3iedkid ◴[31 Mar 20 06:32 UTC] No.22735367[source]▶
Is it because much of palantir success is with large enterprises and not startups?
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1. kidintech ◴[31 Mar 20 06:35 UTC] No.22735378[source]▶
OP says "we couldn't find anyone with an urgent problem that they were willing to pay to solve" and "there was no market to capture". Wouldn't a counter example contradict those statements, regardless of the size of Palantir's clients?