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Re:Palantir bought $50M in gold bars in August as cash pile ... by fkjhdjbd on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:11PM (#28214303)
> Its engineers were accustomed to spending profligately—the company sponsored 13-course tasting-menu lunches with lobster tail and sashimi at headquarters—calling such extravagance “Palantir Entitlement Syndrome.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/palantir-has-a-20-billion-valua...

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Re:Palantir bought $50M in gold bars in August as cash pile ... by dkdk8283 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @01:23AM (#28218001)
Having worked in Mountain View in late 2000s I can say extravagant meals were extremely common. I went on corporate excursions to exotic destinations regularly with insane expense limits on top of bar or dinner events.

Many of us have had a wild ride in tech, I think those days will take another 30 years or more to come back if ever.

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