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HOME/PEOPLE/ALEX KARP
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Alex Karp

ROLE CEOAT PALANTIRMENTIONS 26LAST SEEN SEPTEMBER 4, 2026
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CEO of Palantir Technologies, known for enterprise AI and data analytics.

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mention·StrictlyVC·SEPTEMBER 4, 2026

A who's who of tech leaders — including Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Alex Karp — directly lobbied G20 officials in North Carolina to keep AI regulation light.

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mention·StrictlyVC·SEPTEMBER 2, 2026

Alex Karp | CEO, Palantir | First lead investor in Mykhailo Fedorov's new defense-tech venture

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funding·StrictlyVC·SEPTEMBER 2, 2026

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is the first lead investor in Mykhailo Fedorov's new defense-tech venture

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mention·20VC·AUGUST 22, 2026

Alex Karp has said the biggest enterprise customers in the world don't want to work with frontier model providers. They're scared that they're going to eat their lunch.

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mention·20VC·AUGUST 17, 2026

Alex Karp came on CNBC or CNN and said like, no, the ROI question is still there to validate what you said.

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product·20VC·AUGUST 13, 2026

Palantir went from 18% growth to 98% growth, right? That's a good one. Unprecedented in our lifetimes... They had people who for a decade and a half were out there deploying massive change in the field for their customers.

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mention·20VC·AUGUST 13, 2026

Palantir went from 18% growth to 98% growth, right? That's a good one. Unprecedented in our lifetimes, right? It may be the one of N or the N equals one

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mention·20VC·AUGUST 10, 2026

I think they're more nervous about frontier models usually, part because there's just like much more confusion around the data policy, about what's like actually happening to the props that I'm sending and where they're being stored and how they're being looked at.

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mention·20VC·AUGUST 3, 2026

Alex Karp was saying that every large American enterprise and most large American enterprises were terrified of working with Frontier Labs.

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mention·All In·JULY 20, 2026

We're all about forward deployed engineers at Palantir and they're doing the same thing. You have Alex Karp from Palantir freaking out saying, how can you give your alpha to these companies? When in my opinion, he's just saying they're doing what we're doing.

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mention·All In·JULY 18, 2026

He started with Karp's idea, but then he kind of provided a recipe or roadmap for how enterprises should operationalize that... enterprises have to establish a real trust boundary with private evals, proprietary learning loops inside the tenant, decoupled orchestration, and the explicit right to fine-tune their own outputs.

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mention·Axios AI+·JULY 16, 2026

Frontier AI tools from closed model providers are too expensive and don't offer enough clarity on IP protections.

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mention·Sourcery Newsletter·JULY 14, 2026

Palantir CEO Alex Karp said enterprises want to 'own the means of production' instead of 'transferring their alpha' to OpenAI or Anthropic. Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says Karp is right.

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mention·Sourcery·JULY 13, 2026

Karp said not too long ago on CNBC... talking about sovereign AI and how every company should own the full stack.

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mention·All In·JULY 3, 2026

"I think the thing that he said that I hadn't really thought about in quite those terms is he started talking about AI safety in the enterprise and what that really looks like... What technical customers want is control over their compute, their models, their data stack, and their alpha, meaning their proprietary knowledge. They want to know they own the means of production."

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mention·AI+ Government·JULY 2, 2026

Palantir CEO Alex Karp's scathing critique yesterday shows U.S. AI labs are no longer viewed as untouchable.

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mention·StrictlyVC·JULY 2, 2026

He called the AI industry 'effing insane' in a CNBC interview, accusing leading model companies of overcharging customers, harvesting their data, and leaving CEOs privately 'livid.'

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mention·Newcomer Newsletter·JULY 2, 2026

"Palantir's Alex Karp went on a CNBC rant Wednesday about how enterprise customers were furious with the cost of AI and the business practices of the foundation model companies, and would soon start acting on that."

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mention·Sourcery Newsletter·JULY 2, 2026

"This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me." — Alex Karp on token-based AI pricing delivering no compounding value

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mention·Sourcery·JUNE 20, 2026

Last year in 2025, it was publicly reported that Alex Karp spent around $17 million on flying... it came out to around three months in the air.

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mention·The a16z Show·JUNE 19, 2026

What percentage of the investors in Palantir have read the S-1, K1, right? Like, you know, 0.0001%. What percentage have you seen Alex on YouTube doing his thing? Yeah, exactly. You know, 100%.

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mention·The a16z Show·JUNE 19, 2026

New media is unlimited formats, unlimited channels, and the brand is now the person. So it's not like where people talking about like when every Democrat came out and was mad about SpaceX. They weren't. They were mad about Elon because he's a brand.

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mention·Sourcery·JUNE 15, 2026

All of a sudden I'm getting Alfred Lynn and Alex Karp and Anduril and all these people.

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mention·Sourcery Newsletter·JUNE 12, 2026

Alex Karp — Mentioned alongside Banister and Luckey as a genuinely authentic founder

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mention·Sourcery·JUNE 11, 2026

Alex Karp is definitely another one... you would never be able to tell from how tech media or mainstream media characterize people who genuinely is off.

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mention·StrictlyVC·JUNE 11, 2026

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says enterprise customers are privately 'unhappy' with frontier AI labs, arguing that companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are too focused on selling token usage and not enough on implementation, where he says most of the value from large language models will be created over the next several years.

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