Reflections on Palantir • Hacker News Board

jgalt212 wrote: post #11

246 PE, with a $94B market cap. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PLTR/ Alex Karp has something figured out. The investor class loves him.

As best I can tell only ARM has a higher PE and Market Cap.

https://www.marketbeat.com/market-data/high-pe-stocks/

Re: Reflections on Palantir

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Post by tdeck » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 5:56 PM UTC

> During the 2016-2020 era especially, telling people you worked at Palantir was unpopular. The company was seen as spy tech, NSA surveillance, or worse.

Lots of people still see it in exactly this way. The fact that Palantir IPO'd and is a magnet for investors doesn't contradict this. Palantir always had a reputation for champagne and surveillance.

Re: Reflections on Palantir

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Post by torlok » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 5:59 PM UTC

Manuel_D wrote: post #7

giraffe_lady wrote: post #4

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How can you type something like this after the numerous independent reports of IDF behaviour, civilian casualties in Gaza, and the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank? I can't believe anybody can just ignore reality like that.

Re: Reflections on Palantir

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Post by hammock » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:02 PM UTC

danudey wrote: post #10

hammock wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it’s hygiene and structure

IIRC part of it is that the software itself can make connections between separate data sets. You're not just ingesting data about purchasing information and drug convictions and so on, you're getting automatic relationship detection. For example, figuring out that the cust_ss_num field in one dataset correlates to the conv_ssn_full field in another dataset, and knowing that those fields are the "SSN" field from a thi…

That makes sense and sounds really useful

Re: Reflections on Palantir

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Post by akira2501 » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:03 PM UTC

So this entire article seems to actually describe a _single_ work/consultation product, then spends the rest of the time describing and backwardly lauding the absurd cult of personality that seems to encompass this entire operation.

"A boring dystopia as a service."

Or maybe I'm just not cognitively ready to read this yet this morning. I guess I'll set my A/C to 60 and chew on some ice to see if that helps. :|

Re: Reflections on Palantir

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Post by eezing » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:07 PM UTC

It’s Salesforce v2. A ridiculously expensive proprietary “easy-to-build” application platform with an ecosystem of ridiculously expensive consultants.

Re: Reflections on Palantir

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Post by llamaimperative » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:07 PM UTC

farceSpherule wrote: post #12

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> Palantir's business model is selling their software to the DoD, government, and to large financial institutions. These are the only people who can afford it.

Literally demonstrably untrue. There are orgs in nearly any vertical you can name who are using Palantir.

> And, their software is not spy tech. They have some secret sauce behind the visualization of a customer's custom integrated data sources.

Mostly true :)