[joezydeco]

One of the most visible Palantir employees is Michael Lopp (aka Rands), ex-Apple and Borland engineering manager and now a director at Palantir.

Lopp is pretty visible, writing a blog (http://www.randsinrepose.com), publishing a few books, and speaking at numerous conferences.

But you're right, it seems Palantir takes a lot of it's culture from Apple as opposed to Google.

[brown9-2]

It's probably hard to get a lot of government counterterrorism and military contracting work if you are dedicated to openness in the spirit of Google.

[chris_mahan]

What? I subscribe to his mailing list, and read his blog... Yikes.