Alex Karp
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2,298 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 4 Jun
Alex Karp’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They don't know it.
And it's like, oh, that's so insightful.
It's like, yeah, of course it's insightful.
Carp said it 25 years ago.
So that part is super weird.
But what really happens when we see it is it expands the market.
So in defense tech, we would not be doing this well just purely in government unless there weren't 50 companies that were doing similar things because then the people are like, okay, first of all,
Well, no, that's the large, they do two things.
They increase the size of the market because de facto, nobody wants to find an underrated market where there's only one person.
So, like, if you're the one person, the percentage of the defense budget you can get is much smaller.
And two, they set up a comparator.
It's like, you know, you may not like the freak show.
Okay.
But have you noticed the people who are serious buy it?
And then three, it changes the standard.
Now, what you're seeing now is, like, that times 100x.
Yeah.
And it does change, like, recruiting, retention, and, like, how you build a company.
And we're always thinking, you have to think about how to, being dyslexic is a huge advantage there because, like, you don't have a playbook and now you need things to shift and we're doing that.
The central thing, though, that is just cannot be developed, even if you understood the playbook, a lot of these things are, like, appear like it's, like, you know, LLM code appears like pound check code but isn't.
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