Tim Miller

They were both miserable in law school.

And they like to argue.

They like to argue with each other.

Karp considered himself a socialist at the time.

And Thiel, of course, was famously already a libertarian.

And so there's been this interesting thing for most of Palantir's history where you've got Karp, I'm a progressive.

Thiel is libertarian, drifting further and further to the right.

And it was actually a healthy, useful tension, shall we say, for Palantir, because Thiel's been a polarizing figure for years.

And yet you've got this company at the nexus of technology and national security being run by this guy who looks like a mad professor, Karp, and who says, I'm a progressive, I'm a neo-socialist.

And if it didn't assuage concerns that people had about Palantir, it kind of threw critics for a loop a little bit for a very long time.

That was kind of similar to my love story with my husband.

He was a Democrat.

I was a Republican.

We've met in the middle as kind of neoliberals now.

Peter was a libertarian.

Karp was a neosocialist.

They've met with...

and kind of a desire for authoritarian fascism.

So, you know, it's a little different in that sense.

Well, it is.