Joe Lonsdale says his fellow Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was 'courageous' for speaking out against Alphabet's Google.
in an interview, though he didn't point to any clear evidence. "It's something we don't talk about a lot. It was very courageous of [Thiel] to talk about it."
Google, responding to Thiel's comments, said, "As we have said before, we do not work with the Chinese military." The environment at Google is very "academic," Lonsdale said, where people want to share their work across the world. "There's nationalists in China coming and taking whatever they can learn and taking it back and using it for their own nationalist purposes."earlier this year and was not renewed. "When Google made the choice 'we're not going to help the U.S.
Silicon Valley-based Palantir, the data analytics miner, has worked with many agencies of the U.S. government, including the Defense Department, CIA and FBI. Lonsdale on Monday called Palantir "probably the most patriotic in the Valley."
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