Vanity Fair and Palantir Technologies: The Focus Is on Peter Thiel
March 6, 2017
My hunch is that Vanity Fair Magazine will sell briskly in and around the Washington, DC beltway. Oh, wait. Most of the newsstands and bookstores have gone out of business. Maybe Giant Foods in Gaithersburg will have some copies? The convenient store in Ashburn may have a copy or two tucked in among the car magazines and Find-A-Word pamphlets?
The article which will make Vanity Fair even fairer this month is “Donald Trump Has Made Peter Thiel Immensely Powerful.” Good news for Palantir; bad news for some of the clear eyed professionals who have been sending the US government big bills for their work on the Distributed Common Ground System or DCGS.
I liked the positioning of Mr. Thiel in the write up. He is called the “shadow president.” Interesting. Does that make Palantir Technologies’ Alex Karp the veep?
The write up deserves your attention. Let me highlight three items from the article which I found interesting:
First, the moniker “shadow president” is a coinage of those who work with Mr. Thiel in California and elsewhere. I was hoping that this was a coinage from the Trump inner circle.
Second, the write up reveals that Mr. Thiel believes in the “move fast and break things” approach to innovation. Who would have guessed? Certainly not the US Army procurement professionals.
Third, Mr. Thiel wants to live a long time. Isn’t that a thing in Silicon Valley?
My hunch is that none of the DCGS contractors will be happy with the visibility that Vanity Fair imparts to the “shadow president.”
Will there be a news conference for those in the shadows?
Stephen E Arnold, March 6, 2017
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Buggy whip makers and elevator operators are not needed to mine coal. Robots work without messy OSHA regulations or highly overpaid union stewards. Robots are the new! improved! corporate slave class. Humans cost too much to repair.
Tiffany Trump, her nearly invisible dress, and a friend posed for a selfie last summer at a benefit in the Hamptons.