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> At 23, I turned down the shot to be first engineer at Palantir (now rumored to be worth $20 billion!) even though Peter Thiel personally took me out to dinner
by deciplex 11y ago
> At 23, I turned down the shot to be first engineer at Palantir (now rumored to be worth $20 billion!) even though Peter Thiel personally took me out to dinner to recruit me.
So he left (a lot of) money on the table, but aside from that isn't this a good thing? The NSA is a client of Palantir and I've assumed they write a lot of the software that spies on and tracks innocent people. Is this not correct?
- garry 11y agoPalantir actually uses audit logs to keep better track of how three letter agencies use the data, so that it really does go through the right oversight.
- michaelt 11y agoAnd I bet those audit logs are classified, right?
- paganel 11y ago> So he left (a lot of) money on the table, but aside from that isn't this a good thing? I felt the same thing, initially, and wanted to congratulate the author for inadvertently staying on the "right" side of things. But then I googled his name and found out that he indeed joined Palantir only a year after that.
- snowwrestler 11y agoWhile I'm sure Palantir is very happy for you to assume that they've written core software for the NSA, that is not the reality. Palantir's software is built to filter and display data, not collect it in the first place. The NSA employs a lot of very skilled progammers and system administrators. They write their own core technologies.