Palantir alum and founder
Gene Yu
Founder and CEO at Blackpanda
Founder and CEO of Blackpanda. He is a former Green Beret who worked at Palantir from 2012 to 2013.
Yu graduated from West Point in computer science and served as a captain in US Army Special Forces. He later studied at Johns Hopkins and worked in equity trading at Credit Suisse. He joined Palantir in 2012 and was laid off in 2013. A 2013 hostage rescue in the Philippines led him to start Blackpanda.
At Palantir
- Role not public
- 2012 to 2013
Career
- Earlier: US Army Special Forces, captain
- 2012-2013: Palantir
- Now: Blackpanda, founder and CEO