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 provided up one other batch of colourful commentary to traders alongside the data 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 artificial intelligence-fueled development and dedication towards equipping and enhancing U.S. defense pursuits.
“Our monetary efficiency, that crude yardstick by which the market makes an attempt to measure price on this world, continues to exceed lots of our best expectations,” he wrote.
The eccentric expertise billionaire has turn out to be extensively identified through the years 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 components.
Tech and navy
“We, the heretics, this motley band of characters, have been solid out and practically discarded by Silicon Valley. And but there are indicators that some throughout 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 method, 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 beloved 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 isn’t any query that each cultures and corporations, together with the one we have now constructed, should over an extended time frame be judged ‘by their fruits.’ Matt. 7:16,”
‘Cultural elites’
Karp cited French writer Michel Houellebecq in a piece concerning the “entrenched and resilient” cultural aristocracy of the realized class.
“The Aristocracy had nothing to clarify 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.
“At all times bear in mind, others could hate you. However those that hate you do not win, except you hate them. After which, you destroy your self.”