From $ 500,000 times a billion: Peter Thiel’s Investment in Facebook is legendary. As one of the first investors in Silicon Valley, Thiel to Zuckerberg’s idea – and a 2,000-fied its use in 2004 after the IPO of Facebook in 2012 believed.

Thiel’s currently the most important project could still be profitable. A year before his entry in Facebook, Thiel founded a data analysis Startup Palantir, named after the “all-seeing stone” in Tolkien’s Saga the Lord bahis of the rings.

Meanwhile, grew from Startup to billion-Business, which could apparently go in the next year on the stock market, as last week by a report from the Wall Street Journal.

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it is not just about a few hundred million. From Bank circles, it is said that Palantir could be on the stock exchange of up to 41 billion dollars in value. For comparison: The Private Equity platform share post rated Palantir after the last financing rounds of $ 20 billion. But what Palantir actually does?

The “brain of a spy”

Palantir seems to be actually “seeing” in the Orwellian sense. A report of the news Agency Bloomberg about the data specialists in April was simply overwritten with “Palantir knows everything about you.”

“not even see” Palantir. The data, which combing the Palantir, all originate from external sources, Palantir only provides the platform and Software for the analysis. But it is in. Bloomberg compares the Palantir with the “brain of a spy”, the mountains beyond mountains of data, research, and Connections between data points, the would have recognized a human Analyst never.

Palantirs products to visualize the data in a pretty, cobweb-like graphics. Two work colleagues, for example, as Bloomberg, are linked as such in other places, a car would be associated with its owner, even love Affairs would be detected by Palantirs Software and marked as such. Everything in a large, comprehensive network combined.

No wonder the intelligence services, the Intelligence agencies and the military were in the USA immediately excited. With Palantirs Software terrorists could find faster, attacks verteiteln, and even in the hunt for Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden Palantirs tools were used. The list of customers for Palantirs Software “Gotham” is a collection of the most important police authorities of the USA, as well as virtually the Betpas entire armed forces.

of Course, Palantirs Software also has civilian application areas, remember the less of a Big Brother dystopia. In a scarce Impact Study about Palantir describes how the data aggregation has helped to a more effective disaster relief after hurricane Sandy. Similarly, you have helped U.S. authorities in Tracking down missing and exploited children, boasts of Palantir.

the CIA did start the help

it remains not the less Palantirs Software is primarily a tool for the military and intelligence services. Not coincidentally, the US foreign intelligence service CIA is not only a good customer of Palantir, but also one of the first investors. The CIA venture capital firm In-Q-Tel invested practically establishing a direct two million dollars in Palantir.

Even if In-Q-Tel, only one percent of the Palantir would have purchased would times the use of the investor-ver-200, Palantir actually go to the exchange and prompt 41 billion dollars on the balance.

the founder and partner of Peter Thiel is likely to cash in and also tidy. According to “Forbes” might makes two-thirds of its assets to rise (estimated) 10-percent share of the Palantir of 2.5 billion dollars – which is another two billion, should rise Palantirs rating is actually, to 41 billion dollars.

Palantir would be immediately an industry heavy-weight

in fact, Palantir would not appear to be an IPO too much time. On the one hand, Palantir will probably reach already this year, the profit threshold. On the other hand, most of the Startups were in such an evaluation a long time ago on the stock exchange, to allow to early investors for the Exit. Palantirs last round of financing took place as early as 2015, the turnover in the past year was already at a remarkable $ 750 billion, as the Wall Street Journal reported.

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With 41 billion dollars would be Palantir from day One is an industry heavy weight, in comparison with the direct competition. Other data specialists such as Splunk or Tableau come only on market values of 14.2 and 8.3 billion dollars. Their shares have made in the past 12 months, 51, respectively, 27 per cent good, with the Tableau-share, so that only the level of the middle of the year 2015 has been reached.

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An IPO Palantirs could be the whole of the Megatrend of Data Mining again new impetus. After all, it said, the former JPMorgan CIO Guy Chiarello in the year 2011, transform Palantir “data-avalanches in gold mines”. Investors may be curious.

One Good thing of the IPO, in each case: Palantir would have to drop the veil of secret service agents and public accountability about his business dropping. Of course, Palantir praised now, with its technology only for the Good. But every Tolkien Fan knows, It is mainly the villains of “Lord of the rings”Saga, which took advantage of the “all-seeing stone”.

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