reflections on palantir - Nabeel S. Qureshi
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What it was like working at Palantir, from the early days through joining the S&P 500.
← Back Reflections on Palantir Published: October 15, 2024 . Substack version Palantir is hot now. The company recently joined the S&P 500 . The stock is on a tear, and the company is nearing a $100bn market cap. VCs chase ex-Palantir founders asking to invest. For long-time employees and alumni of the company, this feels deeply weird. During the 2016-2020 era especially, telling people you worked at Palantir was unpopular. The company was seen as spy tech, NSA surveillance, or worse. There were regular protests outside the office . Even among people who didn’t have a problem with it morally,
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