In his response on quora he said he: * left palantir in 09 * is a major shareholder * left after he "had successfully replaced myself in both parts of the co

In his response on quora he said he: * left palantir in 09 * is a major shareholder * left after he "had successfully replaced myself in both parts of the company we'd created and had fully vested". So I am not going to speculate whether he was pushed out, but it sounds like he has much less latitude for steering the company. Especially when you consider the power of the other founders and the initial VC capital that was put in. So this (claims of palantir going public) are what I would expect a major shareholder without control of the company to say. It is effectively the only way to put pressure on them. Even if this is wildly incorrect, and it quite possibly is, that comment was made several years after he had little more than an advisory role at palantir. https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Joe-Lonsdale-leave-Palantir https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Joe-Lonsdale-leave-Palantir