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Steady (and growing) cash flow from contracts with large organizations (whether you like their clients or not), very strong technical staff and consequently, in
by huac 11y ago
Steady (and growing) cash flow from contracts with large organizations (whether you like their clients or not), very strong technical staff and consequently, inventions, prominent brand and public awareness, etc..
- foldr 11y agoThat's pretty vague. Of course they can hire good people if they have lots of money. But what exactly is it that makes the company valuable? This seems to be going round in circles. People keep giving them money, so they must be worth lots of money.
- huac 11y agoi feel like you're being obtuse? don't confuse money raised in investment rounds (such as in the OP) with money that customers pay to palantir. a company's value is the discounted value of its cash flows, future and present. palantir should expect to make money from its contracts, sale of software (i'd lump the value of their patents, etc here), and whatever else they have dreamed up. since they have lots of customers paying them a lot, palantir has value. investors want to invest in a company that's growing. hence they give palantir money so palantir can keep growing. if palantir doesn't keep growing, they'll lose (part of) their investment.
- foldr 11y agoI understand that people are giving Palantir a lot of money. We don't know (do we?) how much they are actually getting from customers. My question is: what does Palantir actually do to create so much value?
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- foldr 11y agoWhat is their revenue, then? I thought that as a private company they don't have to declare it. Now, I've asked the same question a bunch of times and instead of just saying "I don't know", which would be the honest answer, people are just getting grumpy.
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