Via NY Post:
George Soros claims he has buyer’s remorse about his investment in Palantir — even though he’s kept his lucrative stake through some of the secretive Silicon Valley firm’s biggest controversies.
The left-leaning billionaire’s eponymous fund revealed last week that it owns more than 18 million Palantir shares amounting to a roughly 1 percent stake in the data-mining company that was co-founded by libertarian tech tycoon Peter Thiel.
Palantir shares on Thursday were recently up 4.6 percent at $18.72, valuing Soros’ stake at $337 million.
Palantir’s stock price has nearly doubled since it went public on Sept. 30. Soros says he has dumped every share he’s not legally obligated to keep because he “does not approve of Palantir’s business practices,” which include parsing troves of data for shadowy government agencies such as the CIA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.