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Three letter agencies are paying and will continue to pay for Palantir consulting and products.
However Palantir has been unable to fully productize their solution (it is still pretty much consulting). Thus they have hard time convincing Fortune 500 companies to pay due to the costs and depending too much on human interaction.
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Buzzfeed was also respnsible for outing tennis fixing in The Tennis Racket using statistical analysis of players' matches.
Buzzfeed is shaping up to be the one of the best sources for investigative journalism. Who would have thought?
Maybe there's hope for us all, is the way I look at it.
> “One of the things we did well early on was to recognize and invest in the unique talents of each Palantirian” I find it a bit weird how tech companies make up names for their employees now. Googler, Palantirian... does this make people work harder because they feel like they belong or something?
it appeals to that primitive instinct of belonging to a pack, fostering an us-vs-them mentality. this way, you are less likely to leave and are encouraged to give your 110%
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Buzzfeed is shaping up to be the one of the best sources for investigative journalism. Who would have thought?
AFAIK, that was always the plan. You need a huge audience to have the revenue to do great journalism online, and one of the few proven ways to build that audience is with clickbait and listicles. So while it may seem like Buzzfeed has a split personality, it's very much intentional.
My understanding is that Palantir is running an engineering mill/sweatshop using fresh out of school CS grads (particularly from Stanford). That much of their time is spent simply writing client-specific code that imports and cleans up data from disparate enterprise systems. That its not challenging, innovating, or exciting. Of course this is all anecdotal based on what I've heard from friends and a Palantir engineer…
> “One of the things we did well early on was to recognize and invest in the unique talents of each Palantirian” I find it a bit weird how tech companies make up names for their employees now. Googler, Palantirian... does this make people work harder because they feel like they belong or something?
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Note the timestamp on the video... their products look sweet now.
Do you have any recent pictures of the products?
I don't have anything else to point you to unfortunately.
This article was way, way better sourced than I thought it'd be. Especially for Buzzfeed of all places.
It has since, gone down a bit and I won't say it is 100% the point I will make next,but it factors in. Buzzfeed is a lot like Hyundai. While Hyundai killed in the low-cost market, no middle class consumer wanted a hyundai. Their brand had negative value.
Just as quality longform content is not read by the same people who read buzzfeed. So they(bf) will not adopt users, just as hyundai slipped a bit after the marketing relaxed and consumers remembered that the "image" conveyed by hyundai was low-income/cheap. While they had erased the real problem, shitty engineering, the image was just as important.
So buzzfeed should rebrand or meta-structure itself if, at least in my non-expert off the cuff opinion, it wants to ever sell content. Obviously, ancilliary advertisements are will be dead very soon, but buzzfeed is really good at writing advertising copy, they call it journalism i think.
However, as stated above and evidenced by this very article they are breaking some good stories, and are funded by a16z. They have quality journalists who have access and are equipped & talented to write great articles. I just think that most of the people who would value that article, would never read it from buzzfeed. buzzfeed should channel out services like vox and rebrand.
tl;dr know your customer
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