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Margaux MacColl

Inside Silicon Valley’s strangest retreat, filled with taxidermy and smuggled treasures

Business

Culture

Call it the anti-"Mountainhead": A 23-acre complex of hooks, bones, and antique rifles is an unlikely hideaway for Palantir execs and AI founders.

‘Skip the indoctrination’: Palantir invades elite colleges with militant recruiting campaign

The fiercely nationalist defense tech company is aggressively recruiting on the nation’s most prestigious campuses.

She left Salesforce for a hot defense-tech startup — then faced a culture of  drugs, guns, and abuse

Chrissy McGarry says she’s the victim of a company that took the worst traits of Silicon Valley and the military and combined them.

Nazli Dakad

Opinion: Stanford students are careerist corporate climbers — but it’s not (entirely) our fault

Opinion

Why do we forget our desire to change the world as soon as corporate recruiters dangle fat salaries? Because the university systematically advances career funneling.

Defense tech

Inside Silicon Valley’s strangest retreat, filled with taxidermy and smuggled treasures

‘Skip the indoctrination’: Palantir invades elite colleges with militant recruiting campaign

She left Salesforce for a hot defense-tech startup — then faced a culture of drugs, guns, and abuse

Opinion: Stanford students are careerist corporate climbers — but it’s not (entirely) our fault