This is a series of articles aimed at making people aware of the endangered Unicorns that exist among us.
It is not their fault that they are endangered. It’s the price and pride of ownership. So where along the way the decision was made to feed them more than they can consume and that lean was not as import as means.
Some of the unicorns have done well on this diet. Others have not. We don’t pass judgement on the individual unicorns. We just highlight the herd for your awareness.
Currently we have gained a new Unicorn and the count is 155. In other words we lost one.
Palantir
At $20B the Palantir is one of the largest unicorn’s in the herd. The P A L in Palantir maybe a reference to it’s origins in PayPal, where the focus was on using link analysis to find fraud. Since then it has been a darling of the government agencies with contracts for $215M for helping them to do everything from finding Bin Laden to prosecuting Bernie Madoff.
They are looking to be used for energy, entertainment, finance, healthcare, insurance and retailing.
