Palantir 市值在SaaS 行业(尽管还有人认为他不是 SaaS)一片寒冷中悄悄突破历史新高,达到 1000 亿美金,是今年最成功的 SaaS (以及 AI?) 上市公司,一点不为过。
在这次财报电话会上我最喜欢创始人说的一句话,也送给仍在逆境中,这些年备受市场或投资人质疑甚至不屑的创始人,希望共勉:
“And in fact, what we see is the deeper and better the product, the more we drive sales, the more we have our singular advantage as Palantir, not as a commodity product. We are not a commodity. We do not want our customers to be commodities. We want them to be individual titans that are dominating their industry or the battlefield.
And we reflect that in how we do things. We are not trying to be your average Harvard Business School preferred company that reduces the margins has a thin product and then has a lower Rule of 40 and presumably, higher growth.
事实上,我们发现产品越有深度、质量越高,我们的销售额就越高,我们作为Palantir的独特优势就越明显,而不是作为一种商品型产品(Commodity)。我们不是商品。我们也不希望我们的客户成为商品。我们希望他们成为各自“战场”上的主宰或巨头。
我们在做事方式上也体现了这一点。我们不想成为那种普通的、受哈佛商学院青睐的公司,那种公司利润率低、产品单薄,牺牲了40法则(Rule of 40)表现,尽管可能有较高的增长率。”