Peter Thiel’s Palantir Boosts Hiring Whereas Others Are Reducing Jobs (PLTR)
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.
