Peter Thiel Touches Everything
Aug 17, 2022
1 minute
Noah Lanard
Surveillance
Thiel co-founded Palantir in 2004 with the goal of helping the federal government comb through its massive databases to identify national security threats. superfan named the company after Elvish “seeing stones” used by the antihero Saruman to control Middle Earth. Thiel is also funding the defense firm Anduril (another reference), which deals in autonomous submarines, aerial drones, and border surveillance.
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