Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

Less than five years after its founding, Anduril is valued in the billions. After selling his company LiveRamp to Acxiom, RapLeaf cofounder Auren Hoffman established a new Thiel-funded start-up called SafeGraph. It aims to create the biggest, most precise database of real-time human location data, and it has raised over $60 million at the time of this writing.88 Without democratic approval or public debate, a Silicon Valley cabal is cobbling together the kind of security apparatus that has given human society collective nightmares for as long as the computer has existed. We’re getting there, coming to something. The Basilisk.