Paris Marx is joined by Caroline Haskins to discuss what Palantir actually does and the growing influence it has within the US government and many large corporations.
Caroline Haskins is a staff writer at Wired.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
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Peter Thiel is giving a series of lectures on the Antichrist.
- Caroline wrote about Palantir and getting confronted by the company at a conference.
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Paris mentioned a connection between Paypal and the founding of Palantir; a founding story for Palantir is that the concept for the company grew from the desire to use the fraud-detection software designed for PayPal to build counterterrorism software.
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Palantir is having a much better financial year than the rest of Silicon Valley.