Thiel: Palantir faced zero competition for a decade after launch
Peter Thiel · Tariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions · Joe Lonsdale · Apr 17, 2025 · at 16:40
Peter Thiel reflects on the lack of competing defense software startups in the ten years following Palantir's launch.
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“And so there was sort of an element where if you could get through, you would have no competition. And then, you know, a decade later, we still had no competition.”
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