Comment by tucnak
5 hours ago
Exactly like any other big tech (Google, Microsoft, etc) or consulting (McKinsey, Deloitte, etc) company!
There really isn't anything special about Palantir the company. They have disrupted consulting on marketing alone (all this forward-deployed stuff is more fluff than anything) which is not unheard of, and continue to receive all this bad press due to their clientele and the kind of data they're processing. Government departments, military. They are happy to take credit for all the "conniving" allegations because it makes them look like they have a plan, and anybody with purchasing power involving with them knows it corresponds very little to the company operationally, i.e. what the company does.
It's interesting to see how their CEO plays into the whole thing, trying to look paranoid/crazy/brutal/.... It's really just branding/marketing. It's similar to how certain politicians in the US present themselves through vice signalling. Doesn't matter what goes on in the background, the unwashed masses will think things must be happening.