Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent
THE SO WHAT
When a company's political alignment becomes a primary risk factor for a $300B+ business, "values risk" is now board-level, not just PR. Operators should assume employees and customers will diligence political entanglements as hard as they do security and uptime.
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