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Alexander Karp

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Palantir

Search every verified Alexander Karp interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In recent appearances, Palantir co-founder and CEO Alex Karp has focused on themes of AI sovereignty, data security, and the competitive landscape of artificial intelligence. At the Zeta Live '26 conference, he discussed the need for organizations to maintain control over their data and decisions, and he emphasized the importance of speed in execution, arguing that "time is the enemy of everything." In a World Economic Forum conversation, he addressed AI's impact on national security and the global economy, drawing parallels between battlefield data processing and enterprise operations. Karp has been vocal about the risks of using closed AI models, claiming in CNBC interviews that such models may be "exfiltrating" proprietary data and intellectual property from businesses. He argued that discounted token pricing is a mechanism for model providers to access client IP, and he suggested that AI companies may need to be "nationalized" to cap their liability. At AIPCon 11, he contrasted Palantir's approach with what he called the "parasitic software industrial complex," stating that his company is "in the business of getting paid after value creation." At a G20 Innovation Ministerial fireside chat, he advised sovereign states to build AI systems around their own classified data and to identify "actual patriots" to lead these efforts.

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“Every business what is a business? A business meaning something that at some point in the future will provide high quality revenue meaning free cash flow. And what is why is free cash flow what everyone thinks about analysts why is this an important concept because it basically tells you you have something unique in your business that is valuable enough where you have pricing power so that you can charge more than th”

“The first wave of AI really happened in the military, but then my version of it was partly classified, but you see it in Ukraine and other places. But I think actually the real problem in disseminating the truth was the truth in America which is the defining place for AI which is also super interesting because normally you have a revolution and like I spent half my life in Germany you'd expect a German version a Fren”

“I think one of the unfortunate things about the story in the West is that it will destroy the jobs of humanity like you go to an elite school and you study philosophy. Who... let me take myself as an example. I did too. I think like with a lot of things in the area we go into, up 80% of your cost and improve your really doing. And then there's the speed. In the past, 5 years ago that now... let me further... going to”

“The first thing that sovereign states really struggle with is whether I can objectively identify which technology is better. Can I even evaluate it? Can I assess what I'm looking at to say yes? But don't you need to know where you want to go to ask the right question? Let me rephrase. You need to know where you are to know where you want to go. So the point I want to make with this explanation is that one of the most”

“The biggest danger currently of this revolution is that it generates inescapably I think it will raise the boats of most people, but you can't have a revolution where I become 50 times wealthier and everyone else becomes 10% wealthier. It's going to drive political insanity. Political insanity. What does that look like? It looks like obviously wealthy people should pay more than fair their share of the taxes, but a w”

“The reason why the sovereignty revolution, which we helped launch together with our partner Jensen Huang, the famous founder and head of Nvidia, is when you use a closed model and you pay for tokens, the reason the tokens are discounted is not so they can grow the market. They're discounted so that they can get access to your IP so that their models get better. And there was functionally no honest conversation about ”

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