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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by rhizome on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:13PM (#12801903)
Palantir’s workers “need to know they will have liquidity at a fair price,” said Mr. Karp

Unless there's a subtlety I missed, isn't this more likely to be driven by their VCs?

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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by dsl on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @10:19PM (#12802450)
It sounds like the IPO is employee retention driven.
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Re:Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go... by rhizome on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @10:30PM (#12802491)
They're famous for underpaying and overworking, which I supposed could affect hiring, but yeah, maybe the subtlety is that employees were carrot-and-stick'ed with promises of IPO and now word has got around about work conditions there. Still, it's usually because VCs want their payday.
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