Book Review: Forward Deployed: Inside the Palantir Framework That Solved Enterprise AI by Riste Gramatikov

Ever since The Lean Startup by Eric Ries was published in 2011, prevailing wisdom in the SaaS community has been to launch a minimum viable product (MVP) rather than wait for a perfect, feature-complete release. The lesson was to release quickly, gather real user feedback, and continuously improve through small, iterative updates instead of relying on assumptions. Another foundational SaaS principle is “Validate Before You Scale.” The assumption is that you shouldn't invest heavily in building...