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I ran a booth at UMD near theirs back in like... 2014?, and holy shit did they have a huge line. They were giving away so much swag, it was not sane.

We had ~5 resumes dropped off, I assume Palantir had ~200. I don't even remember seeing a Google or Apple booth, I assume mostly because this was east coast and on Palantir's "home" turf (for fed contracts at least), among other things.

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Hah. If it was 2014, I was probably at that fair.

I was ignorant of Palantir at the time, but I wonder now if the lines/excitement were because they were the "cool" (read with dripping sarcasm) defense contractor among the stodgy ones (LM, Raytheon, and all the other beltway bandits).

I don't recall an Apple booth, but I do remember a Google one. IIRC, they were off in a corner.

I went to their event for free pizza

That's how they get you! (I used to run recruiting marketing there as a side job and good pizza was part of the playbook).

How? What's in the pizza?

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