Palantir is Thriving Under Trump w/ Caroline Haskins
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Palantir is Thriving Under Trump
Caroline Haskins
Notes
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.
Guest
Caroline Haskins is a staff writer at Wired.
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Links
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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.