Does any one know how Palantir started? I.e. from what I can remember it seemed to come out of nowhere. How did they manage to get such huge contracts from the start?
IIRC Palantir had difficulty getting clients early on. The tech evolved from Paypal's efforts to combat fraud via data analysis, esp. against the Russian mafia trafficking on their platform. The CIA was one of its first clients, which eventually led to other government agencies trusting them.