Peter Thiel’s Palantir Saw Coronavirus Coming. Now It Braces for the Impact

Thiel has by far the strongest relationship with Trump of any prominent tech person, so I'm quite surprised that Palantir hasn't been more front and center to the government's whole COVID response.

Especially given that Trump's brain appears to be wired to try to impress people with "look at all the high-quality people I have working for me"....Karp is at his best when he plays the eccentric, slightly disheveled hacker-genius to large crowds of credulous non-engineers. Would be a perfect fit to put him in the daily briefing mix.

That paywall, though.