It’s who they think they will grow up to become.Their largest project is Palantir Gotham which is exclusively for government agencies (federal, state, ICE, and by Project Maven after the tech companies abandoned it due to ethics concerns! They offer a data integration platform and then a slate of apps on top of that platform for institutions to perform analysis on their own data. Bonus pay at Salesforce.com, Inc. ranges from $5,000 to $42,797 annually among employees who report receiving a bonus. Conscience is clear then!I imagine that before Palantir came around, the analysts at these agencies did what most other analysts anywhere do and used Excel to create sophisticated pivot tables when working on {insert defense operation}.Where does it stop being okay? I know many companies get away with it, but I still find it odd for shareholders to not have any control. Even assuming everey single one of them came online last year, we're looking at millions of dollars each?That's a lot of…bribes?
Unfortunately, such voters are in the minority. There are also lots of SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies), like 27 of them just in August. Microsoft doesn't get what you put into your Excel sheets (not really sure now...) and neither does Palantir with their platform.They probably have some sort of telemetry to monitor how their tools are used, to "improve user experience", like most large software vendors. Dickey, the former first round draft pick who lost an $810,000 signing bonus because he was missing an important ligament in his arm, had spent years toiling in the minor leagues before discovering the knuckleball and emerging as a star for the Mets. This isn’t some bait-and-switch, voters have always known what a clandestine agency is.I understand that there exists some voters who don’t believe that clandestine agencies should exists. The raw numbers are large, but looking at dollars in vs. dollars out, you're damn far from making any money.Not a lawyer. the Federal Reserve printed trillions over last 5 months to save the markets.The stock market numbers have been pumped up for years now, and how convenient they are planning on the crash right after electionsI think getting listed before the uncertainty of the election might have something to do with it?Trying to get out for the payday before the economy totally tanks (T-1 months)It is probably not going to crash before the election - although there could be temporary dips. When presented with evidence that voters do approve of that, it's a bit of a hack to say that it's literally impossible for voters to approve of it. Is that a standard way to keep control amongst the founders?No, it's pretty novel. They have completely soaked up Silicon Valley's Imperialist 'Manifest Destiny' mission.They can't see their own privileged position and power.
The police need a warrant in order to search a home. Which have each all doubled YoY. Then they just become ordinary hierarchs.> when they hide what they are doing from their votersSure, but by definition clandestine agencies cannot have public approval because there is no way for voters to know whether they should approve of it or not. A bunch of people who have never been granted RSUs or options on here who consider themselves experts on how those are taxedBut the company has existed for a long time.
Gross margin of 67%, even with pilot costs lumped into Sales&Marketing. (Asana, Airbnb, Doordash, Lemonade are others).As a Palantir engineer - all I can say is thank god, I have never worked in CA for a reason...You misread that.
Not exactly some beneficial use of technology to counterweight working with ICE to separate children from their families.They don’t list their top customers because they are top secret government agencies but if you look at their customers then it’s clear that the ones paying them the most are secretive government agencies and it’s been that way since day 1Did you even read their S-1? These rules provide guiding principles, and there's some human judgment involved in ironing out the details. Voters I have provided you an actual poll that asks users "do you approve of these secret agencies (that have always been secret)".
It looks like he got options in 2015 at a strike price of $7.05. Only 250 customers? And even when you take away ALL of those costs, they would have earned less than 1/4 million in the last quarter. 5.6 Co Worker Quality. For example, they have tools for scraping social media platforms to build profiles of people. The school-to-prison pipeline guarantees exploitation and incarceration of the US's dark history of slavery and genocide.So instead of Palantir pushing for systemic change, I see their technology as regressive and focused on giving power to unjust causes.If you want to read more about how algorithms recreate bias, there's quite a lot of material that has come out recently. Palantir does not by itself collect or mine data, which could be better or worse depending on how much you trust your government.>The LAPD is going to scan license plates and analyze the data whether Palantir helps them or not> the one level of indirection apparently makes that okay"Somebody will do something you deem immoral whether you participate or note" is not a strong argument for why you should actually participate.not sure if that's what their saying. And this is just one exchange in one country.So if there are more IPOs and more tech IPOs that's kinda weird on weird.One explanation that was offered was that there are a ton of IPOs all the time: These just made it on to HN as there were some big names in the mix (Asana, AirBnB, Unity, SumoLogic, Snowflake, Palantir, etc). You have to file a different form (not S-1) when you do the SPAC-merger. "This letter is clearly written with dumb, naive retail investors in mind. 5.7 Advancement.
Their Net Loss went from 51M to 119M.