← pool

📈 Palantir's government/intelligence franchise is a good investment

Sacks discloses he owns Palantir and calls it a good investment on the back of the very thing critics use against it — that it sells deep into the national-security state. Bullish PLTR as a sole-source government software franchise.

0 CONVICTION
peaked 42.9 EMBER
EMBER
band
▲ LONG PLTR
expression · bullish equities
RIGHT
result · return +484.2% · vs SPY +465.8%
2025-07-26
born 2024-07-26 (E189) → window closed

other ideas on the same ticker, same direction: Palantir's premium is justified — the short loses 14 (PLTR)

⚖ Why this result

fully deterministic — computed from daily closes on the scoring date; nothing below is editable or hand-set

  1. Window: 2024-07-26 → 2025-07-26 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
  2. The call: ▲ LONG PLTR (primary play). PLTR rose 484.2% over the window → return (sign flipped for a SHORT) = +484.2% (the call made money).
  3. Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +18.5% → vs SPY = +484.2 − (+18.5) = +465.8% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the result uses.
  4. Rule fired:
    ▶ RIGHT — return ≥ +10% AND beat SPY by 5+ ✓ (return 484.2, vs SPY 465.8)
    · HALF — return ≥ +5% OR beat SPY at all
    · WRONG — everything else
  5. Credit: supporters of a RIGHT earn 1.0 each, opposers the opposite — this feeds the scoreboard. supported: Chamath, Cyan Banister, Sacks

Conviction timeline

bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15

Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2024-07-26)

Plays

expressionsymbolkindrelevancerationale
▲ LONG PLTRstock PRIMARY the disclosed position

Mention log newest first

Cyan Banister
Cyan Banister (regular guest ×1.0) equities 50% · n=5 · E220 (2025-03-22) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 38:18 SUPPORT
“I think that the government has long relied on private industry to solve some of its biggest problems, and that's what sets us apart from other countries in the world. And so you look at some of the best companies like SpaceX, Andoril, etc. We need more companies like this if we're going to compete. And so doing this absolutely makes sense, and it's just going to help the sales cycle to get that sort of stamp of approval that our government is using that software.”
Chamath
Chamath equities 42% · n=163 · E197 (2024-09-27) · sentiment · strength 1 ▶ 37:59 SUPPORT
“I suspect palatiers go to market. When they start to really scale, they'll be able to underprice a bunch of these other alternatives.”
Sacks
Sacks equities 44% · n=96 · E197 (2024-09-27) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 35:57 SUPPORT
“For example, the most highly valued public software company right now in terms of ARR multiple is Palantir. I think that's largely because the market perceives Palantir is having a big AI opportunity.”
Sacks
Sacks equities 44% · n=96 · E189 (2024-07-26) · positioning · strength 1 ▶ 17:10 SUPPORT
“I have shares in the company. I think it's a good investment.”

Who built this conviction

each voice's total push on the score, in conviction points across every mention — supports and opposes · share = % of all mention-driven movement

Sacks
Sacks 44%
2 scoring events · 54% of moves
+36.3 → net +36.3
Cyan Banister
Cyan Banister 50% regular guest ×1.0
1 scoring event · 28% of moves
+18.6 → net +18.6
Chamath
Chamath 42%
1 scoring event · 19% of moves
+12.5 → net +12.5

⏳ decay drained -47.9 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one

Score events

episodekindΔafternote
E189 2024-07-26 init +24.0 24.0 E189 born by Sacks (positioning x1)
E190 2024-08-02 decay -1.0 23.0 E190 silent
E191 2024-08-09 decay -0.9 22.1 E191 silent
E192 2024-08-16 decay -0.9 21.2 E192 silent
E193 2024-08-23 decay -0.8 20.4 E193 silent
E194 2024-08-30 decay -0.8 19.6 E194 silent
E195 2024-09-06 decay -0.8 18.8 E195 silent
E196 2024-09-20 decay -0.8 18.0 E196 silent
E197 2024-09-27 reinforce +12.3 30.3 E197 Sacks support x2
E197 2024-09-27 reinforce +12.5 42.9 E197 Chamath support x1 (new voice)
E198 2024-10-03 decay -1.7 41.2 E198 silent
E199 2024-10-11 decay -1.6 39.5 E199 silent
E200 2024-10-18 decay -1.6 37.9 E200 silent
E201 2024-10-25 decay -1.5 36.4 E201 silent
E202 2024-11-01 decay -1.5 35.0 E202 silent
E203 2024-11-08 decay -1.4 33.6 E203 silent
E204 2024-11-16 decay -1.3 32.2 E204 silent
E205 2024-11-23 decay -1.3 30.9 E205 silent
E206 2024-12-07 decay -1.2 29.7 E206 silent
E207 2024-12-13 decay -1.2 28.5 E207 silent
E208 2024-12-20 decay -1.1 27.4 E208 silent
E209 2025-01-04 decay -1.1 26.3 E209 silent
E210 2025-01-11 decay -1.1 25.2 E210 silent
E211 2025-01-18 decay -1.0 24.2 E211 silent
E212 2025-01-25 decay -1.0 23.2 E212 silent
E213 2025-01-31 decay -0.9 22.3 E213 silent
E214 2025-02-07 decay -0.9 21.4 E214 silent
E215 2025-02-15 decay -0.9 20.6 E215 silent
E216 2025-02-21 decay -0.8 19.7 E216 silent
E217 2025-03-01 decay -0.8 18.9 E217 silent
E218 2025-03-08 decay -0.8 18.2 E218 silent
E219 2025-03-15 decay -0.7 17.5 E219 silent
E220 2025-03-22 reinforce +18.6 36.0 E220 Cyan Banister support x2 (new voice)
E221 2025-03-29 decay -1.4 34.6 E221 silent
E222 2025-04-05 decay -1.4 33.2 E222 silent
E223 2025-04-11 decay -1.3 31.9 E223 silent
E224 2025-04-19 decay -1.3 30.6 E224 silent
E225 2025-04-26 decay -1.2 29.4 E225 silent
E226 2025-05-02 decay -1.2 28.2 E226 silent
E227 2025-05-09 decay -1.1 27.1 E227 silent
E228 2025-05-17 decay -1.1 26.0 E228 silent
E229 2025-05-24 decay -1.0 25.0 E229 silent
E231 2025-06-13 decay -1.0 24.0 E231 silent
E232 2025-06-21 decay -1.0 23.0 E232 silent
E233 2025-06-28 decay -0.9 22.1 E233 silent
E234 2025-07-04 decay -0.9 21.2 E234 silent
E235 2025-07-11 decay -0.8 20.3 E235 silent
E236 2025-07-19 decay -0.8 19.5 E236 silent