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Alex Karp: Russia and France have the world's best math cultures
“Like, the two best math cultures in the world are Russia and France, and like, we hire ad nauseum from France.”
Karp: Classic liberalism requires fair inputs, not fair outputs
“If you're a classic, the classic liberal, inputs have to be really, really fair, as fair as we can make them, and outputs are never going to be fair.”
Palantir expects to generate sizably more revenue per customer in the future.
“We believe we're going to make more from people in the future than in the past, sizably more, because it's like, why should we not capture part of the value that we helped create?”
Palantir is growing 10x faster in the United States than in Europe.
“Like we have 10 X growth in America compared to Europe, same people, same products, same everything.”
Karp: Palantir hits 93% US growth and 94 Rule of 40
“Everyone tells us to be super modest about 93% growth in the U.S. And 94 rule of 40.”
Karp: High-fidelity ontology combined with LLMs is very hard to replicate
“We also believe that if it, for more kind of like kind of architectural implementation, technical perspective, the value is in high fidelity data captured in, in ontology with FDs and where there's an enhancing factor with LLMs and that that's going to be very…”
Karp: Palantir experiences 10x growth in the US compared to Europe
“Like we have 10 X growth in America compared to Europe, same people, same products, same everything.”
Karp: US is the only viable top choice globally to build something interesting
“So if you're sitting in any part of the world, and you want to do something interesting, your number one choice right now, without a good choice number two, is to come to the U.S. And build it.”
Alex Karp: Silicon Valley investors dismiss founders who aren't overtly aggressive
“One of the things that entrepreneurs or builders need to understand about the valley is if you're not overtly aggressive about Representing yourself. They'll just assume that, you know, you're, it's not real.”
Karp: Effective enterprise software is American-built, productized, and commercially sold
“Almost all enterprise software that works in America, or in the world, has two characteristics. It's built in America, and it's built as a product. Yeah. And it has a third characteristic, quite frankly, that it's sold commercially.”
Alex Karp: Governments must buy technology from unlikable, non-conforming founders
“The future of the West depends on buying things from people that are Sometimes, not always, outside the norm, unlikable to you, are not going to conform to your thing, are not going to do the right dinners.”
Karp: Ukrainian sites using Palantir were bombed and staff resumed work same day
“Some of the places that have used our product have been bombed. People have died, and the same day, those people are back at work.”
Karp: Pitching military leadership without battlefield empathy will backfire
“If you're going to meet a general or somebody like that, and you've never talked to somebody who's actually done something on the battlefield, Or someone who has family who's done something on the battlefield, and you don't have any, and because of that, you d…”
Karp: Corporate aging is directly driven by organizational hierarchy layers
“The rate of age or anti-aging is directly correlated with the layers of hierarchy.”
Karp: Dyslexics outperform today because non-playbook environments reward invention
“I think some of the reasons why dyslexics are so outperformant now is that we're in a non-playbook world, and the playbook's not that valuable, but if you're dyslexic, you can't You can't follow the playbook, or only in the third rate way, so you invent new an…”
Palantir achieved 93% US growth and a 94% Rule of 40.
“Everyone tells us to be super modest about 93% growth in the U.S. And 94 rule of 40.”
Karp: Palantir lacks capacity while prioritizing US defense and ontology
“At Palantir right now, in the US, the market that counts, we don't have the people. We don't have the time. We, orchestrating completely perfectly at Palantir, which of course we don't do, because we're like an artist colony, right? We don't have the time to, …”
Karp: Palantir has a huge retail investor base in Germany
“Honestly, we have a huge retail, crazy thing about Germany is a huge retail investor base. They don't admit it in public, but in private, they're like, keep going.”
Alex Karp: Palantir now powers 13-14% of all US hospital bed allocations
“On healthcare, pharmaceuticals hospital care, we had basically very few clients last year, and now I think we power allocation at 15, between 13 and 14% of all hospital bed allocation in the country.”
Alex Karp co-founded Palantir hoping to make $1 million and retire.
“When I started at pound here, I actually just, cause I just wanted to be a left alone. I was like, yeah, I'm going to make some money. I'm going to move to Berlin. I'm going to live a debaucherous life. That was my goal. Like I'm moving to Berlin. I thought I …”
Karp: Original goal at Palantir was making $250K–$1M to move to Berlin
“When I started at Palantir, I actually just, cause I just wanted to be a left alone. I was like, yeah, I'm going to make some money. I'm going to move to Berlin. I'm going to live a debaucherous life. That was my goal. Like I'm moving to Berlin. I thought I ne…”
Karp: Exhumed his childhood dog's remains to rebury near his current house
“So I through all sorts of ways got in touch with the person who bought the house that was foresold during the divorce and person was very generous and for lots of reasons agreed to have me exhume their whole yard, and then I took Rosita, and now I'm yeah, I ha…”