Looking at Palantir only as a software company is incredibly misleading. They sell high-ticket custom solutions to massive organizations that they leverage many

Looking at Palantir only as a software company is incredibly misleading. They sell high-ticket custom solutions to massive organizations that they leverage many of their internal software tools and libraries to build. This involves large amounts of custom product and engineering development, ingesting complex data sources, integrating with operational processes, and communicating results and insights back to the customer in a way that changes the customers behavior and adds value.