About
Alex Karp co-founded Palantir Technologies in 2003 with Peter Thiel and others and has served as CEO since the company's earliest days, building it into the dominant Western data and decision-making platform for defense, intelligence, and large enterprises. He holds a JD from Stanford Law School and a PhD in neoclassical social theory from Goethe University Frankfurt under Jurgen Habermas, an unusual background that he openly cites as central to Palantir's conception of itself as a values-driven Western institution. Karp is one of the most public CEOs in defense tech, known for combative public commentary on China, Silicon Valley, and the necessity of building software for the United States and its allies. Under his tenure Palantir has gone public, become broadly profitable, and pushed deeply into commercial AI deployment with its AIP product line.
Notable work
- Palantir Technologies
- Enterprise software
- Defense and intelligence software
- Decision systems
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