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Is Palantir’s Crystal Ball Just Smoke and Mirrors?
28 sep. 2020 - Peter Thiel and Alex Karp adapted anti-fraud software from PayPal and used it to launch a surveillance start-up. Here, an inside look at how Palantir got its start — and whether its proprietary technology is more smoke and mirrors than crystal ball.
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