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Trae Stephens's avatar

Palantir has a great mafia: Addepar, Affirm, Anduril, Blend, SourceGraph, Handshake, Ironclad, Mosaic, Bold, Peregrine, Certain Lending, Table.ai, and a bunch of others!

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Auren Hoffman's avatar

agree. Palantir does not fit my narrative as it has, in itself, been so successful. But the Palantir mafia is incredible!

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Trae Stephens's avatar

Took a while to really get rolling (5 years to first $10m in revenue). So it wasn't always booming. Definitely felt a little dicey in the early days.

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Dan Engel's avatar

You know who I think had perhaps the strongest “mafia” of the last hundred years? Drexel Burnham Lambert

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Auren Hoffman's avatar

definitely. much more needs to be written about the Drexel alumni!

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Ashutosh Padhi's avatar

This seems quite a good hypothesis. I am not able to find counter-examples as per my awareness.

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