Thread by @blmohr

“Palan­tir’s busi­ness is be­ing squeezed as corporate customers pare back spend­ing, lead­ing the Silicon Val­ley firm to draw up deep cost cuts and consider push­ing back further its long-awaited initial pub­lic of­fer­ing...” wsj.com/articles/peter…

“In ad­di­tion, some within Palantir are wary of gov­t requests to build de­tailed location-track­ing tools, which go against the lib­er­tar­ian ideals that Thiel pub­licly espouses...”

“The prod­ucts, which it first began build­ing for the U.K.’s National Health Ser­vice, have since been rolled out in more than a dozen coun­tries out­side the U.S., in­clud­ing Greece and some German states.”

“Many of Palan­tir’s iinternational ef­forts are be­ing of­fered pro bono for now. Like many compa­nies, Palan­tir has historically of­fered products to some cus­tomers free of charge in hopes of secur­ing long-term con­tracts later.”