Joe Lonsdale

Palantir Technologies Founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and PayPal Engineers

2003-05-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Palantir Technologies was officially incorporated in May 2003 by Peter Thiel and PayPal alumni, just months after Congress defunded DARPA’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program due to privacy concerns. The founders met with John Poindexter, the recently fired director of Total Information …

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