Yes, it is very hard. But does Palantir succeed? Or do they like some other companies just trick customers with big wallets to buy?

To me it seems they do https://logicmag.io/commons/enter-the-dragnet/

We used them at a bulge bracket investment bank and they failed miserably...

The impression I get from their involvement at one company I know of is that it’s very much the latter. I was pretty surprised to see them behaving and performing about the same as any parasitic enterprise software vendor with an integration services arm. One wonders how different they really are, and if maybe they just have very good PR and marketing.

Chalk it up as yet another case of some famous one-would-suppose impressive entity, or strata of a company hierarchy, or whatever, turning out to be pretty average, or even below average. You’d think I’d stop being surprised by now.

Then again, maybe I was just seeing their B-team.

I’ve heard you often get the A Team coming up with the plan and making the sale and then the B Team doing the actual implementation which surprise! doesn’t live up to the A Team hype. Not specific to Palantir.

My sense working at an adjacent company and having talked with folks there is that they are more successful with their government projects than their corporate ones.

It’s also something you’ll never do in-house because there’s too many politics involved in getting everyone to give up their data.

Then when the CEO hires Palantir suddenly everyone has to.

Never seen people internally guard their data that much.

But who is going to do the heavy lift? who is going to get billed for that? who is paying for the cloud space, or licenses? absolute holy war.

no problems getting people into the data lakes, but if you want us to do anything useful with it you gotta pay / get people / get resources. but like, you want me to approve the read access or pull request? no problem, have at it.