Palantir Applied sciences Inc. is considerably accelerating its tempo of hiring this yr to assist meet bold gross sales targets, defying conference when many different know-how firms are freezing headcount or chopping jobs.
The transfer displays the ethos of the corporate’s chairman and co-founder, Peter Thiel, who constructed a fortune by going towards standard opinion in Silicon Valley. Palantir, which sells knowledge evaluation software program to governments and corporations, is on observe to extend headcount about 25% by the top of the yr, Lisa Gordon, a spokeswoman for the corporate, instructed Bloomberg.