Palantir
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Government and enterprise data-analytics company whose secrecy, defence contracts and ideological founders have only recently drawn book-length treatment.
7 books · 1 people behind it
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- The ContrarianMax Chafkin, 2021
- The Philosopher in the ValleyMichael Steinberger, 2025
- Zero to OnePeter Thiel, Blake Masters, 2014
The people behind it 1
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Founders 1
Books 7
T1 Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters · 2014 · Founder's manifesto; the monopoly thesis Palantir was built to execute.
Balaji S. SrinivasanEric WeinsteinMohnish PabraiNat EliasonPatrick O'ShaughnessyAlfred LinAna FabregaAnna ChengBen HorowitzBrett AdcockCasey NeistatChris DixonCodie SanchezDustin MoskovitzElon MuskEric JorgensonGuy ProopsJames AltucherJoel ConnollyKeith RaboisLuis von AhnMarc AndreessenMatt MullenwegMax LevchinMichael WongNiki ScevakReid HoffmanRyan PetersonSam AltmanSatya NadellaSophie BakalarSteph SmithTom Bilyeu
Christian Brose · 2020 · The defence procurement failure Palantir sells against.
Jimmy Soni · 2022 · PayPal's fraud-detection work, from which Palantir was directly spun.
Michael Steinberger · 2025 · Alex Karp and Palantir's path from CIA money to the surveillance state.
Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska · 2025 · Insider manifesto by Palantir's CEO on tech and national power.
Max Chafkin · 2021 · Peter Thiel biography with substantial Palantir founding material.
T3 Unit X
Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff · 2024 · Insiders on Pentagon-Valley contracting where Palantir won; Open Library unreachable.