Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale accuses BuzzFeed of taking “select facts out of context” in effort to “hunt unicorns”, says customer traction is “astonishing”
Let's address this briefly here rather than write emails back to a lot of friends and investors … Tweets: @mikeisaac , @mattocko , @weberwest , @mattocko , @mattrosoff and @mims Tweets: @mikeisaac : does cofounder of palantir have to like BuzzFeeds scoop? Of course not. But his idea of journalism's purpose is lol http://www.quora.com/... Matthew Ocko / @mattocko : @MikeIsaac 1/ as investor in similar co's, & enterprise in general, think their client & employee churn normal, not drastic as represented. Jonathan Weber / @weberwest : Apparently the job of business journalists is to “congratulate [companies] for being awesome” rather than “nitpick.” https://www.quora.com/... Matthew Ocko / @mattocko : @MikeIsaac Not an investor or cheerleader (in fact have competitive startups). But this was not accurate reporting, as cash issue indicates Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : Really interesting from Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale. If Palantir had shared more of the positive... http://www.quora.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : Co-founder of Palantir comes out swinging in response to Buzzfeed's “click-bait” article on the company http://www.quora.com/... Expand More For Next Unexpand More For Next