– In communcation. When Angela McNeal and Mayada Gonimah led the modeling and AI/machine learning products group together at Palantir, they had a lot in common. They worked together every day, building Palantir’s first ML product suite—more than $100 million in projects.
Gonimah, originally from Egypt, wasn’t a U.S. citizen at the time. She had previously worked for Goldman Sachs and built the digital subscriptions platform for the New York Times. But when it came time for the products she built at Palantir to be used by the Department of Defense, a client, Gonimah couldn’t get the security clearance to see her work in action. “We were in this space where Maya had built this infrastructure she couldn’t see, she couldn’t access, and had to trust me to communicate back the requirements and the product vision in a very abstract sense,” McNeal remembers.
