Tim Miller

So tell us about this guy.

I mean, besides like the origin story with TL, like what else should we know about Alex Karp?

Interesting backstory.

Grew up in Philadelphia.

He's biracial.

His father's a Jewish pediatrician.

His mother's Black, an artist.

Very left-wing household.

I mean, as he tells it, he and his brother spent a lot of time as kids being taken to anti-war rallies, anti-nuclear rallies by their parents.

Karp is severely dyslexic.

Pretty young age, he kind of

came to feel that he had some strikes against him in this world, being biracial Jewish with a learning disability.

And he carries this very acute sense of vulnerability into adulthood and essentially carries a right to Palantir.

Palantir's mission resonates very strongly with him because

He thinks that only in a society that offers robust protection for minority rights, where the rule of law is a very powerful force, can someone like him, with his background, survive and prosper.

So when Palantir talked about defending the West, for most of Palantir's history, that meant defending liberal democracy.

And Karp took that very personally.

In some sense, you could say Palantir existed to help make the world safe for Alex Karp.

That was how, you know, he believed he was doing, helping make the world safe for millions of others.

But it was a very personal mission for him.