Palantir Poaching Suit Called ‘Scare’ Tactic by Ex-Employees

Three former Palantir Technologies Inc. employees say the company is trying to use the courts to squash their startup and deny poaching staff and intellectual property from it.

Palantir, the data analytics company whose chairman is Peter Thiel, filed a revised lawsuit against the trio last month and asked a judge to bar Hirsh Jain from working at Percepta, which he co-founded, or for the AI startup’s venture capital backer, General Catalyst, for 12 months.

Palantir included in its complaint an email exchange in which Hirsh Jain said he was “down to pillage the best devs at ...