Palantir: Thirty Years of Palantir

Thirty Years of Palantir demet Fri, 08/14/2026 - 11:42 What three decades has taught us about what lasts Thirty years ago last month, between my sophomore and junior years of college, I started a company called Palantir Internet Services, later known as Palantir.net. I had been building personal websites for nearly two years at that point and was captivated by this revolutionary new medium that allowed anyone, anywhere, to publish something that anyone else in the world could read. While the internet touches nearly every part of our lives today, in the summer of 1996 it was still seen by many