Palantir is one of the most fascinating companies in the Valley because the core purpose of the company is data-analysis based intelligence products and services — a setup so close to the nature of operations research. Palantir occupies a weird service space between Tool-kit Developers like Matlab and Mathematica, Consulting firms like ZS and Booz, and IT service companies like Wipro. Evidently, Palantir does a lot of data-analysis for the government agencies reportedly on terrorism, and hence is under constant scrutiny by journalists and civil liberties organizations, and it is famously opaque. So, it is always interesting when some light is shed on its business. The article in WSJ is informative in some ways. The authors are skeptical on Palantir:…
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