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Economy

Palantir: The Company That Cannot Be Outvoted

People have argued about Palantir for twenty years, but about the wrong thing. It started in 2003 on money from the CIA's venture fund and hides nothing about what it does — its chief executive says so publicly. What matters is not the founders' rhetoric but the charter: one class of shares gives them 49.999999% of the vote.