Palantir alum and founder
Nima Ghamsari
Co-founder and Head of Blend at Blend
Early Palantir employee who co-founded its financial sector group, then left with colleagues to start Blend.
Ghamsari went to Stanford and played semi-pro online poker to pay for room and board. At Palantir he co-founded the commercial group for banks and spent about three years helping banks manage mortgage portfolios after 2008. He left with Palantir colleagues to found Blend, which went public in 2021.
At Palantir
- Financial institutions group lead
- 2008 to 2012
- Palo Alto
Career
- c. 2008-2011: Palantir, financial institutions group
- 2012: Co-founded Blend
- 2021: Blend IPO on NYSE