Palantir's FDE model mirrors Barings' merchant banking playbook
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-11-08
A thread argues Palantir's Forward Deployed Engineer model replicates the Barings merchant banking playbook: embed with customers, capture their transactions, relationships and credit risks into a commercial ontology, then leverage that data advantage to grow and finance. The Barings path turned a wool apprentice into one of Europe's most powerful banking dynasties.
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