🔗 Reflections on Palantir October 17th, 2024

I suspect the tone here — largely laudatory, abd looking up to people like Peter Thiel and Paul Graham — will rub most of my readers the wrong way. Look past that, and pay attention to the notes on what makes Palentir work. I completely agree with a lot of the conclusions about how important being embedded with real customers is. It happens also to be the model that I saw working at 18F and USDS!…