Heh -- I'd say it's safe to say that almost all companies are data companies now. Walmart, Amazon, UPS, grocery stores, etc. Even if you take a look at major le

Heh -- I'd say it's safe to say that almost all companies are data companies now. Walmart, Amazon, UPS, grocery stores, etc. Even if you take a look at major league baseball teams, there's been a huge shift to analyzing the data of their business to establish norms, trends, expectations, etc. I think a better way to describe Palantir would be that they're a company help their clients draw correlations and potential conclusions from data based on a very large dataset of information. Finding how seemingly-unrelated disparate data actually is related is the secret sauce that makes their product valuable to government agencies and other large organizations. You can see how this would be helpful for something like the Department of Homeland Security.