Reflections on Palantir

This is the first article on Palantir I've found that's refreshing in its candour and actually exposes why its a such a success.

Also, great learnings for everyone building AI driven services companies.

Peter Theil is scum. People who work for him are also scum. Evil has the ropes of society because evil worked harder at getting them and didn't learn the lesson about sharing in kindergarten.

As someone who runs an IT services company, I can tell you how uncommon it is to find engineers who can both code really well, but also interact and sell to customers.

I always wondered why you needed BD / "business folk", but its rare to find the ability to schmooze with customers and hustle along with deep technical talent in the same individual.

So really surprising (and cool) to see how Palantir was able to do this with their FDEs!