"Officially incorporated in May 2003, Palantir is generally considered
to have been founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel>, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lonsdale>,^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#cite_note-4>
Stephen Cohen
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Cohen_%28entrepreneur%29>, and
Nathan Gettings. Early investments were $2 million from the US Central
Intelligence Agency
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency> venture arm
In-Q-Tel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel>, and $30 million from
Thiel and his firm, Founders Fund
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Fund>."

"Customers: Palantir Gotham is used by counter-terrorism analysts at
offices in the United States Intelligence Community
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community> and
United States Department of Defense
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense>,
fraud investigators at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency
Board
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_Accountability_and_Transparency_Board>,
and cyber analysts at Information Warfare Monitor
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Warfare_Monitor> (responsible
for the GhostNet <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhostNet> and the Shadow
Network investigation). Palantir Metropolis is used by hedge funds,
banks, and financial services firms.^[5]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#cite_note-bare_url-5> ^[6]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#cite_note-npr-6>
^[25] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#cite_note-25>
^[26]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#cite_note-bare_url_a-26>
U.S. military intelligence
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_intelligence> used the Palantir
product to improve their ability to predict locations of improvised
explosive devices
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_devices> in its war
in Afghanistan
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29>.
A small number of practitioners reported it to be more useful than the
U.S. Army's program of record, the Distributed Common Ground System
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Common_Ground_System>
(DCGS-A). California Congressman Duncan D. Hunter
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_D._Hunter> complained of US DoD
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense>
obstacles to its wider use in 2012."

This speaks volumes about Peter Thiel's values, assuming he has not
publicly condemned his prior actions.

-Kristov

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#cite_note-bare_url-5>
On 05/30/2014 07:46 PM, Mike Gogulski wrote:
> Allies don't found Palantir.
>
> On 05/31/2014 12:51 AM, Julia Tourianski wrote:
>> What is your candid opinion on Peter Thiel and bitcoin?
>> He's attending Bilderberg currently. And they
>> are definitely discussing bitcoin there.
>
>
>
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