All the pretty dark horses: why markets can't value the unseen & misunderstood Palantir

From the intro of my finance master's thesis on how markets value knowledge capital - I examine how traditional accounting methods fail to capture valuation metrics for data analytics companies.

From a business perspective, notwithstanding certain classical approaches in the omerta, imagine the following rhetorical scenario: if a gun were held to your head and you were forced to give a numbe…