Michael Steinberger

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TechStuff · What is Palantir’s Alex Karp Thinking? - The Story · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

So a tradition of pacifism and, you know, very, very

I would say not wildly left wing, but certainly left leaning, left of center.

Then he went to Stanford Law School, which he hated.

The only good thing he took away from that is that that's where he and Thiel met and became friends.

They were political opposites then.

Karp decided that he didn't want to pursue a career in the law and went off to Germany to earn a doctorate at Goethe University Frankfurt.

And, you know, then decided he didn't want to be a professor either.

So he was in his mid-30s, kind of at loose ends.

And, you know, again, no background in technology, no background really in business.

Had never run an organization.

And he ended up as the CEO of this startup.

But what Tio recognized that Karp was very good at working with people and was really good at raising money.

He got people to sign checks.

But the other co-founders also saw that there was a kind of charisma to Karp that would be very helpful to this company.

And he is in his very idiosyncratic way, a very charismatic figure.

So despite this unlikely background, he ended up the CEO of this tech startup.

Well, I don't think he I mean, he wouldn't say that he's had a political conversion.

He's one of those who say I didn't leave the Democrats.

They left me.

So that's kind of his view.

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