Referring to Palantir I once asked him if he ever had a Robert Oppenheimer moment - he did not answer. No more words were needed.
That's an interesting take. I've experienced both sides of it multiple times: failing over several years with the same strategy, and giving up too soon on ideas/products that were starting to gain traction, slowly--that later became clear market needs.
In real life, chess audience can immediately tell if you try that.
Did he act like he made up that old quote, attributed to Vince Lombardy for decades? https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/vince_lombardi_161268
Non-answer seems about right -- how do you treat nonsensical questions?
1. Linking the name of a company to people and places that don't exist doesn't demonstrate anything.
2. You don't even know enough to know that the Palantiri were originally created and used by the elves, not Sauron.
I take offense to that. I know the Palantiri were originally made by the elves, with good intentions. Sauron just took hold of one and poisoned the network.