However, I can't find any examples of what they really do or what kind of product they offer. I've watched multiple videos about Palantir including many interviews with Alex Karp. But I still can't figure out exactly what they do and how their products/services would help us at work.
IOW I have yet to see anything that makes them look like more than your average data-centric service company. Pretty sure they're a normal business with a fairly typical offering that's been hyped so people in decision-making positions think it's Magic Sauce. Like a lot of companies that get talked about on HN, actually.
How is that PE ratio justified? I just cant wrap my mind around it.
And all the battleground tech they seem to offer? Good fucking luck selling it to any NATO country now.
They offer Apollo <https://www.palantir.com/docs/apollo/core/overview/#apollo-a...> as part of their FedStart program, although their docs aren't sales-y enough for drive-by understanding of what it does. They had a demo-day video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kSGlg8d5mI?t=622> that is still too "blah, blah, words" but at least shows some of the UI
As compared to Argo et al, I'll say it's pretty slick, but it is unquestionably very "do things the Palantir way" and thus even as slick as it is I don't think it's appropriate for just any ole random startup. It's also evidently just recently been exposed outside of Palantir so it definitely is v0.0.00000009-alpha when trying to use it in anger