Palantir CEO Alex Karp took a victory lap over the company’s explosive growth, saying it managed to boost its commercial business using a “miniscule and shrinking” sales team. In the shareholder letter accompanying Monday’s second-quarter results, Karp said it was another case of Palantir ignoring the norms of growing a business. “On a quarter-by-quarter basis,
When it was Alex Karp‘s turn to speak on Palantir’s second-quarter earnings call Monday evening, the CEO could barely contain his excitement. Grinning as he repeatedly pounded his pen on the table—and taking jabs at unnamed Silicon Valley AI competitors who “eat vegetables” and don’t support the U.S. military—a pugnacious Karp reveled in what he
Alex Karp’s crusade against frontier AI labs continues. During Palantir’s second-quarter earnings call on Monday, the CEO and cofounder reiterated his view that leading AI labs could absorb enterprises’ data, intellectual property, and expertise into their models and ultimately use that to compete with their customers. “They deserve to colonize your enterprise,” Karp said, characterizing
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises. The CEO, who famously studied philosophy and earned a PhD in social theory, implied in Palantir’s quarterly shareholder letter that these were the kinds of capitalists who gave rise to Marxist socialism. “There are Marxist overtones and