Michael Steinberger

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

Well, I would politely correct you in that I don't think it was a mutiny.

You had...

pretty robust internal dissent during the first Trump presidency over the work with ICE, which that issue was somewhat overblown because their contract at the time was with a division of ICE that was not really involved in the immigration crackdown.

This is during the first Trump presidency.

Now they, of course, are intimately involved in it.

But back during the first Trump presidency, you had several hundred employees sign a letter asking CARP to break the contract with ICE.

I would say the difference between now and then, because the internal dissent has been quite a bit more muted this time.

And I would say the difference between now and then is that tech jobs are a lot harder to come by right now.

So, you know, it's, yeah, in 2018, 2019, you could protest internally at

And if you end up pissing off the upper echelon enough that they fired you, you were pretty well assured that with your with your background at Palantir, you could get a job at another major tech company.

Now it's very hard.

So I think that has kind of kept a lid on the internal dissent because there's not very many places you can go to if you get shown the door at Palantir.

Yeah, no, that's it.

And they would never say this publicly and they would probably deny it privately.

But I think I know that the view internally is that this technology is mission critical for the US military.

The number of contracts they've received from the U.S.

military, it's become – Maven has now become the AI targeting program, of which, again, Palantir's software is the backbone.

It's just been made a program of record, which is a very important designation.

So what Democrat coming in would say, okay, yeah, Maven is great and all, but screw Palantir.

So sorry, you guys, you can't use this.

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