Thursday, October 5, 2023

Palantir's PEU Chairman Pans Client


Britain's National Health Service is considering a five year $579 million contract with vendor Palantir.  The deal will "help the agency analyze medical data, detect patterns and ultimately overhaul its entire system."

Bloomberg reported:

Peter Thiel, who is still Palantir’s chairman, has described the UK’s affection for the NHS as “Stockholm syndrome,” and recommended that the country could “rip the whole thing from the ground and start over,” in a speech at the Oxford Union in January.

Wow, the Chairman insulted his company's client, one considering increased business with the firm.  It's a PEU world.

Update 10-21-23:  Marc Cohodes wrote "Peter Thiel is and always has been Dirty."

Update 11-11-23:  Billionaire Peter Thiel had this to say about his past support for Donald Trump:

“There are a lot of things I got wrong,” he acknowledged. “It was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought. They couldn’t get the most basic pieces of the government to work. So that was—I think that part was maybe worse than even my low expectations.”

And these are the people driving government policies...