Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, November 21st. Today on Forbes, Tech Darling Palantir

mints two more billionaires in post-election surge. Palantir co-founder and venture capitalist

Joe Lonsdale saw Donald Trump's re-election as president earlier this month as a win for the United

States. Lonsdale, who helped Elon Musk raise money for Trump through the America pack, wrote

on X on November 5th, quote, it's morning again in America. In another post on X, he wrote,

quote, Daddy's Home.

It's also a win for Lansdale.

Although he hasn't worked at Palantir since 2009, Forbes estimates that he still owns a stake in the company,

which he recently called part of a, quote, new prime of defense companies that are excited about a second Trump presidency.

Thanks to a combination of growth and fervor, Palantir's share price has shot up more than 50% since election night. That jump coincided with Palantir's strong quarterly earnings report,

in which it reported a 40% increase in revenue from U.S. government customers, and a new government

contract drove the company's quarterly revenue to an all-time high of $726 million.

Palantir's stock price surge has made Lonsdale and his co-founder, Stephen Cohen, both 42 years old,

new billionaires. Per Forbes estimates, Lonsdale is worth

$1.6 billion and Cohen, $2.3 billion. Aside from Lonsdale's estimated 1% stake in Palantir,

worth about $1 billion, he has investments in software and defense companies through his venture

firm, 8VC,

plus cash from selling shares in February of several companies 8VC has backed, including

OpenGov, which he also co-founded.

Cohen's billions, meanwhile, come from his 1.5% stake in Palantir, plus an estimated $175 million from selling stock over the past

four years. Neither responded to requests for comment from Forbes.

Last month, Lonsdale answered a question on the podcast Big Deal about whether billionaires

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