You Can't Copy Palantir

Palantir is basically a consulting shop with fancy marketing designed to shift perception so it doesn’t get valued at the low multiples that being a consulting business normally entails.

> i wrote this essay bc i want to move the discourse away from the low signal bullshit around ”what is or isn’t an FDE”, and towards what is palantir?

> Palantir is a vertically integrated outcome based software solution provider

Nailed it AFAICT.

From TFA, https://ethanding.com/foundry-viz/ is indeed a neat visualization of the public Palantir docs.