Chapter 453 453 Partnership with the world's best big data unicorn company!

  Wang Guanxi smiled and said: "In fact, the value of the technology companies you founded, listed companies in the future, will also skyrocket, and tens of billions of dollars are normal."

  In the future, the market value of Facebook will exceed US$1 trillion, and Mark Zak will become a billion-dollar rich.

  Wang Guanxi’s equity will be diluted, but holding Facebook’s equity value of more than 150 billion US dollars is stable.

  Mark Zack laughed: "I hope so, this time I got 2.5 billion US dollars in cash. I plan to acquire several companies and strive to be listed within three years!"

  Peter Thiel smiled bitterly: "I have invested in a lot of companies, and I don’t know when I will be listed."

  Wang Guanxi knows that Peter Thiel has invested in YouTube, picture sharing software company Slide, user review site Yelp, PalantirTechnologie, which develops software to search for terrorists and financial fraud, rocket manufacturing company SpaceX, electric car company TeslaMotors, and micro-lending company Kiva.

  These companies later proved to be very successful.

  It can be said that Peter Thiel is the most successful technology venture capitalist in the world.

  YouTube has been acquired by Google and made a lot of money.

And Peter Thiel founded (Palandier Technology Company), it is a very powerful and mysterious existence, this Peter Thiel is also a weird and powerful, he can freely shuttle between law, finance, investment and entrepreneurship. .

  In the future, Palantir will be a unicorn of big data. After listing, its market value was as high as 80 billion US dollars at its highest market value. Peter Thiel also became a tens of billions of dollars.

  Thinking of this, Wang Guanxi said: "When the big data company you founded, Peter Thiel, will be listed in the future, the market value will definitely be very high, and tens of billions of dollars will not be a problem."

  Peter Thiel was taken aback and asked: "Mr. Wang, how did you know that I founded a big data company?"

   Five years ago, he founded Palantir with a few top students from Stanford. They are all super code farmers. The company is very secretive. Only a few people know it, not even Mark Zack.

  Wang Guanxi smiled and said, “I will find out if I check it. Palantir you founded is indeed a good software company. In fact, you founded it in 2004.”

  This Peter Thiel made his first external investment in Facebook in 2004 and served as a director. In the same year, he founded the software company Palantir to serve data analysis in the fields of national defense security and global finance. It is very mysterious and not many people know about it.

  Palantir is actually little known even in 2014, 10 years after its establishment, and its mystery is evident.

   only gradually surfaced in 2015:

  Firstly, the concept of “big data” is bad, and there are always a few noodle dishes;

  Secondly, everyone was surprised to find that this unicorn, which was never known, was only ranked behind Uber and Airbnb at a valuation of $20.2 billion.

  Sanlai’s main customers are the CIA and FBI, etc., which only appear in American TV shows and Hollywood movies.

  And its first customer won the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

   Later, the CIA also gave Palantir US$2 million in venture capital through its venture capital fund In-Q-Tel.

  Wang Guanxi suspects that Peter Thiel is from the CIA.

  Thinking of this, Wang Guanxi asked again: “It should be a customer of the CIA, right?”

  Peter Tilton looked at Wang Guanxi in a daze, and only after a while he said: "Mr. Wang, I didn't expect you to know all this!"

  Currently, the funds under the CIA are clients of other companies, as well as pre-investors.

  Wang Guanxi smiled: “I have a security company under my umbrella, and it has its own intelligence network. You can find out if you check it, but you, Palantir, is really good, and the CIA has also raised funds for you?”

  Peter Thiel thought for a while, and said: “The fund under the CIA did give $2 million in seed funds, and it will be announced in the future, but you didn’t expect you to know it so early.”

  Currently his company serves the CIA, and now his company’s business is only aimed at government customers. However, as the scale grows, he intends to raise funds from outside and expand his business from government customers to corporate customers.

  Wang Guanxi smiled and said: "Peter Thiel, you won't be from the CIA, are you?"

  Peter Thiel smiled and said, "This is not the case. There are employees in the company."

  In fact, he is not a member of the CIA, he just serves the CIA customer.

  Wang Guanxi smiled and said: “You big data company is rare in Silicon Valley and even in the world. Are there any plans to borrow from non-governmental departments now?”

  Why do you say Palantir is awesome?

  Its most famous case is to help the US military locate and kill the organization stupid**.

  Palantir company is famous for three projects: PalantirGotham, PalantirMetropolis and PalantirFoundry.

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  PalantirGotham—used by counter-terrorism analysts from the United States Intelligence Agency (USIC) and the US Department of Defense.

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  Palantir Metropolis—used by hedge funds, banks and financial services companies.

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  PalantirFoundry—used by customers including Morgan Stanley, Merck, Airbus and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles

  Palantir's original client was a federal agency of USIC.

  Since then, the company has expanded its customer base to provide services to state and local governments, as well as private companies in the financial and medical industries.

  Peter Thiel pondered for a moment, and said: "Mr. Wang, currently our company only has the CIA, a major customer. Are you going to give an order to our company?"

  From its inception until 2008, the CIA has been Palantir's only major customer, and the money paid every year is not much.

  He will not only be satisfied with serving one customer.

  Wang Guanxi has many banks, large companies, hedge funds, and security companies that can indeed place orders for it.

  He also plans to take orders from companies in the future.

  Wang Guanxi said: "Mr. Peter Thiel, I have many companies, especially banks, and security companies. I hope that there will be a dedicated big data company to serve us. Palantir may be a very good choice for you."

  Peter Tilton was a little moved, but if the order was given for nothing, it must be conditional, so he asked: "Mr. Wang, you want to finance Palantir?

Seeing Wang Guanxi nodded, Peter Teal continued: "This may be a bit difficult. The CIA fund is also one of Palantir's major shareholders. When Palantir was founded, the CIA fund invested US$2 million. If I raise funds, The CIA needs to be notified that according to the previously signed agreement, they have priority financing rights"

Wang Guanxi smiled and said: "Mr. Peter Thiel, I hope to inject capital into Palantir and become a partner, and at the same time give Palantir a large order. You don’t need to just serve the CIA customer, you can serve more customers. To get more orders."

  Wang Guanxi knows the development history of Palantir

  2010 is the beginning of Palantir's career take-off. In July of the same year, Palantir received US$90 million in the fourth round of financing, and the company was valued at US$737 million.

  On May 6, 2011, Palantir received a new round of financing of 50 million US dollars.

  On October 7, 2011, Palantir Technology received a US$70 million investment in the F round of financing, with a valuation of US$2.5 billion.

By 2013, the number of U.S. national agencies working with Palantir had increased to about 12, and they were basically familiar roles, including: the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United States Department of Homeland Security, and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) , The United States National Security Agency and other big-name institutions.

  In September of the same year, Palantir also won a large order of US$196 million from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

  At the beginning of 2014, the company was valued at 9 billion U.S. dollars. According to Forbes, this valuation made Palantir one of the "Silicon Valley's most valuable private technology companies."

  In January 2015, the company was valued at US$15 billion. In November 2014, it conducted an undisclosed round of financing with a financing amount of US$50 million.

  At the end of 2015, the company completed a round of financing of US$880 million, and its valuation rose to US$20 billion.

  Palantir has never reported profit, and has no information about its properties.

  At the time of listing, the market value was up to US$80 billion.

  Thinking of this, he continued: "Mr. Peter Thiel, you also founded a company to make money, so that the company can get a huge increase in wealth by going public."

  This Peter Thiel founded so many companies and invested in so many companies. Isn't it all for making money and making money? Later, Palantir didn't just serve the government department. In 2010, he started to serve Morgan Bank.

  Palantir helped many banks to recover billions of dollars in the Ponzi scheme of Bernard Madoff, the former chairman of Nasdaq, and gained great reputation and gained the trust and recognition of more and more financial predators on Wall Street.

   is indeed a very powerful company.

  This Peter Thiel is indeed very capable, capable person, Wang Guanxi wants to draw him over.

Thinking of this, Wang Guanxi continued: "Mr. Peter Thiel, I hope that we can work together to speed up the development of Palantir, let the company go public soon, and everyone can get wealth growth earlier, and these banks under my control, as well as large companies , Can make Palantir take off, Ford Motor Company needs your software to improve production efficiency and identify potential safety hazards"

   Then he added: "My security company is the same in nature as Blackwater, and there will be many orders for you in the future."

  He did not give a large number of orders in vain, but he needed to become a partner of Palantir, and he had to arrange people to enter Palantir.

  At this time, Mark Zach also followed up and said: "Peter Thiel, my Facebook company also ordered your order. What do you think? You also helped me to lock and track some commercial spies."

  This Peter Thiel is also true. It has been 5 years since the establishment of Palantir. He didn't know it. It was really hidden.

  Peter Till struggled a bit, and said: "Okay, I will take you to the company tomorrow!"

  So, the next day, Wang Guanxi and Mark Zach followed Peter Thiel’s corporate headquarters.

  This Palantir company is really secretive. It is in an alley without a house number.

   can be described as a wonderful thing among the companies established in Silicon Valley, USA!

  The entire company does not have a public relations sales and marketing staff, all are code farmers, programmers

  In order to prevent leaks, the office windows are all single-sided see-through glass, and special devices are installed on the windows to prevent laser eavesdropping.

  Here, Wang Guanxi also met two members of the CIA.

  Peter Thiel said: "There are not many members in the company, including me, less than 40 people."

  Wang Guanxi smiled and said: “That’s because you only have one big customer. In fact, there is no need to keep secret. The company will be known if it wants to raise funds and go public.”

  Makzak also said: “Just change to a headquarters and put on a sign, so that outside companies, large companies, and Wall Street financial giants trust you.”

  Peter Thiel said: "It's not in a hurry for the time being, let's talk about it when the company has many customers in the future."

  After staying in the company for another hour, Wang Guanxi, Markzak, and Peter Thiel came to a nearby coffee shop.

  Peter Thiel asked: "Two, come on, what is your valuation of Palantir?"

   Mark Zak said: "At least 200 million US dollars, but I only give orders, and do not plan to invest for the time being, because I have other places where I need money."

  To be honest, Palantir is just a big customer at present, and there is not much revenue in one year. He doesn't think much about investment.

  Because I think Palantir will develop slowly, I don’t know when it will go public.

  Less than his Facebook company.

   was established in the same year, his Facebook company valuation has reached 10 billion U.S. dollars, and the valuation of Palantir, founded by Peter Thiel, is also 200 million U.S. dollars.

Anyway, he thinks so. After thinking about it, Markzak continued: "Peter Thiel, your customers should not be limited to the CIA, otherwise the big companies outside will not trust your company. "

  Peter Thiel smiled bitterly: "Well, I do have plans to change. The company is developing very slowly, but our technology is absolutely excellent."

  Wang Guanxi said: "Mr. Peter Thiel, I value you 300 million U.S. dollars, I will raise 100 million U.S. dollars for you, and I want a 25% equity."

  At this time, Peter Thiel said: "Mr. Wang, our Palantir company has a dual-share design. My team owns Class B shares. If you raise funds, we can only raise Class A shares for you."

  Wang Guanxi smiled and said; “Then I value Palantir company at 400 million U.S. dollars, raise 200 million U.S. dollars, and require 33% of the equity, but the voting requires 25% of the voting rights, the establishment of directors in Palantir, and arrange for people to come in."

  “Then I will give Palantir the orders from Ford Motor Company, Macy’s, Umbrella Company, and various banks”

  "My person is in charge of my company, what do you think?"

Peter Thiel heard the valuation of 400 million U.S. dollars and injected 200 million U.S. dollars. He suddenly thought about it. The 200 million U.S. dollars is enough to acquire the company he wants to acquire. If Palantir has received so many orders, it has also developed rapidly. When he goes public, his wealth will also swell, and he may become a billionaire man.

   So he opened his mouth and said: "Mr. Wang, let's make a deal, and my team can make a decision!"

   Then Peter Thiel made a few calls, said something, and said to Wang Guanxi: "Mr. Wang, it's done."

"OK" So Wang Guanxi earned US$200 million from the No. 1 Fund to the Wang Venture Capital Foundation, and then invested US$200 million in Palantir, and obtained 33% of Palantir's equity and 25% of the voting rights. .

  (End of this chapter)