Peter Thiel's fascination with J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" isn't just a personal quirk — it's a strategic theme that runs through his business empire. Palantir Technologies, Inc.

Palantir was one of my highest-ranking companies in a SaaS screen I created. The company’s “perfect on paper” with strong metrics, rapid revenue growth, rising margins and huge TAM. Qualitatively, ...

Lore changes to Tolkien’s world are nothing new for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. But its changes to the palantíri, the spherical seeing devices that have appeared most notably in Númenor ...

Geeks and wonks may have something new in common. After the Washington Post broke a story earlier this week about a government program to mine tech data—via a program code-named PRISM—a reader of the ...