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Reflections on Palantir

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479 points freditup | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.238s | source
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newprint ◴[16 Oct 24 02:50 UTC] No.41855137[source]▶
Can someone explain to me what is the Palantir's business model ? I haven't heard any large, meaningful project they been involved in, but I keep hearing the company name & how hot they are and their stocks are going to blow-up any day (some of my friends kept their stocks for the last 4-5 years with very little gain compared to other software companies). I know of the smaller software companies that are less than 100 people and have a very meaningful impact in DoD & Gov space.
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swordsmith ◴[16 Oct 24 21:05 UTC] No.41863854[source]▶
I use Foundry for work. It makes data ingestion, cleaning, quality check and automation easy. After all the data is ingested, running analysis/RAG on them become extremely easy.

Basically, it's end-to-end data engineering and analytics. And the more a company uses/invests into the platform, the more benefit and locked-in they are.

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1. justmarc ◴[17 Oct 24 12:56 UTC] No.41869235[source]▶
It certainly sounds like they've created an excellent product both for its value to the customer as well as value to their shareholders.

That's what companies should all be built and optimized to do. That's what it's about.