Palantir, founded in 2003, saw a slower burn: hard technical challenges and the difficulty of selling into the government right at the beginning of the Iraq War. PayPal packed a lot of drama into its early years, from the merger between Elon Musk’s and Thiel’s competing startups to executive churn including Musk’s ouster to a difficult IPO and the eventual buyout by eBay. If there’s one thing that PayPal and Palantir share, beyond co-founder Peter Thiel, it’s that they are both startups that faced an enormous amount of challenges in their early days. “So there's an outsized amount of Palantirians that end up wanting to build a startup, and that's how you end up with over 170 startups in the ecosystem.” Perfecting the playbook “Those folks tend to be very entrepreneurial, they’re comfortable operating on their own,” Lesiva said. Now the Palantir Pack is deploying the same playbook as it builds the next generation of startups. At Palantir, they built an engineering-first culture that wasn't afraid to work hard and do unscalable things like deploying engineers out to customers to make it a success. The Palantir playbook started by going after big, ambitious, mission-driven problems and hiring the best talent out of universities to do it, the founders, early employees and VCs interviewed for this story said. “The Pack has gradients of maturity, and there’s going to be a lot more,” predicts Trae’ Stephens, an early employee at Palantir who would go on to become a partner at Founders Fund and co-founder and executive chairman at Anduril. There are new waves of up-and-coming endeavors that could add to the Pack’s unicorn ranks, like AI startup Arena, Web3 developer tool Kurtosis and data science company Hex - all of which have announced funding this year. #Paypal careers recent grads fullBut unlike PayPal, which saw its early employees leave after eBay bought the company and immediately start new ventures, Palantir is still spinning out new founders and arguably hasn’t reached its full potential. Other cohorts of founders, like much of the leadership team who started defense startup Anduril, bonded in their Palantir days. All three have been founders and are now funders to a network of alumni. The Palantir Pack includes early team members like co-founder Joe Lonsdale, first employee Alex Moore and 10th hire Garry Tan. Instead, much like the company itself, the group that I’m calling the Palantir Pack has emerged more quietly, taking years to focus on building their companies and firms. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.The Palantir group hasn’t reached the fame of the PayPal Mafia, whose infamous Fortune photo shoot and rapidly successful next acts made it legendary. Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.
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