Silicon Valley's most secretive startup lets employees sell $425,000 worth of stock per year

Tristan Fewings/Getty Images Palantir is one of the biggest privately held tech companies in the world, recently valued at $20 billion. The company sells data analysis software to government agencies like the FBI and CIA, as well as to private companies. As is the case with a lot of other billion-dollar startups, this has created some tension between executives who want to keep the company private to avoid burdensome regulations and the distraction of being public, and investors and employee...