Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Applied sciences, speaks on a panel titled Energy, Goal, and the New American Century on the Hill and Valley Discussion board on the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp supplied up one other batch of colourful commentary to buyers alongside the knowledge analytics firm’s first-quarter earnings.
In a letter to shareholders, Karp quoted his personal e-book and a few vital historic figures — together with St. Augustine and President Richard Nixon — and the New Testomony as he touted the corporate’s synthetic intelligence-fueled progress and dedication towards equipping and enhancing U.S. protection pursuits.
“Our monetary efficiency, that crude yardstick by which the market makes an attempt to measure value on this world, continues to exceed lots of our biggest expectations,” he wrote.
The eccentric know-how billionaire has turn into extensively identified over time for his energetic interviews and flowing shareholder letters that always incorporate philosophy, ethics and unconventional language.
His letters usually learn like an essay or dissertation, damaged down into elements.
Tech and navy
“We, the heretics, this motley band of characters, had been solid out and practically discarded by Silicon Valley. And but there are indicators that some inside the Valley have now turned a nook and begun following our lead. We observe solely that our dedication to constructing software program for the U.S. navy, to these whom we have now requested to step into hurt’s manner, stays steadfast, when such a dedication is trendy and handy, and when it isn’t.”
St. Augustine
Karp quoted thinker and theologian St. Augustine in his case for defending the U.S.
“All males are to be cherished equally,” he wrote. “However since you can not do good to all, you might be to pay particular regard to those that, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are introduced into nearer reference to you.”
Weltanschauung
In highlighting the corporate’s tradition, Karp likened the setting to a Weltanschauung “neighborhood that’s certain collectively by a brief however evolving historical past and patterns of discourse and shared beliefs” and quoted the New Testomony.
“There is no such thing as a query that each cultures and corporations, together with the one we have now constructed, should over a protracted time period be judged ‘by their fruits.’ Matt. 7:16,”
‘Cultural elites’
Karp cited French creator Michel Houellebecq in a piece concerning the “entrenched and resilient” cultural aristocracy of the realized class.
“The Aristocracy had nothing to elucidate their proper to remain in energy, other than their delivery. … Up to date elites declare mental and ethical superiority.”
President Nixon
Karp concluded his letter with a name to motion for rooting out the “cynics and the skeptics,” quoting an excerpt from President Nixon’s 1974 resignation speech.
“All the time bear in mind, others might hate you. However those that hate you do not win, except you hate them. After which, you destroy your self.”
