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Decoding Palantir, the Most Mysterious Company in Silicon Valley
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we talk about one of the most notorious American corporations. So what does Palantir actually do?
Peter Thiel, we've talked about a few times on this show, and Alex Karp, seem like they have intentionally wanted to position the company as a government and military partner, which, like we said earlier, inevitably comes with some secrecy. He kind of reminisces about the times when technology and science and governments all came together to defeat a common enemy instead of, "Building things because they can," which is serious shade at, I don't know, a company that makes food delivery apps. I think what's kind of interesting about both Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, even though sometimes their politics aren't entirely aligned, they both coalesce around this shared vision of the techno state and powering the West to what they call its obvious innate superiority.
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