In a recent video, CEO Alex Karp suggests that 30% of Palantir's products are "unintelligible" to most people. They are particularly unintelligible to sell-side analysts. Many on Wall Street view Palantir's investments as "buying customers." More likely, this venture strategy will be taught in MBA textbooks one day. It was pioneered by SoftBank's Masayoshi Son.
Palantir Learns From SoftBank; Taunts Wall Street