Alex Karp
20 statements across 7 episodes · 10 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 12, 2024 by John Coogan · said 122 times in 18 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN
- Jake Paul Thinks We'll Live Forever
- Cerebras IPO, Warsh Confirmed Fed Chair, Musk-OpenAI Trial Nears End | Diet TBPN
- Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN
- AI vs. Dog Cancer, Timothée Chalamet Under Fire, ‘Agents Over Bubbles' | Diet TBPN
- Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
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2025 100 mentions in 9 episodes 11 per episode
- The BILLIONAIRE Saving THE WEST
- Defense Tech vs. Silicon Valley
- What is PALANTIR? (And Why it's RIPPING!)
- OpenAI Requesting Federal Backstop? | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- Jared Isaacman Back In The Cockpit at NASA | Diet TBPN
- Ford PULLS BACK EV Investment
- How Tech Can Save America | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
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2024 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about Alex Karp, oldest first
Dec 12, 2024 neutral
Sep 4, 2025 positive
Sep 4, 2025 positive
Sep 4, 2025
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…”
Sep 4, 2025 negative
Karp: The woke left and right both undermine meritocracy
“The thing that unifies the woke left and the woke right is they don't like the consequences of meritocracy. They want to work back to the inputs. So in that, that like just will screw society. It's like, you've got to be able to allow people to succeed whereve…”
Sep 4, 2025 bullish
Sep 4, 2025 positive
Karp: LLMs only create enterprise value within an ontology wrapper
“The value of LLM is when it's essentially in an ontology wrapper, because to actually create value, you have to be able to take the output, serialize it, and deserialize it in the context of the business. So the logic, actions, and security of the business, an…”
Sep 4, 2025 bullish
Karp: Aggregate corporate cost structures will drop despite higher top-tier talent pay
“Workers are gonna become more expensive, the overhead's gonna become less. Truly, basically, artist-shaped people are gonna be incredibly valuable, and they're gonna demand to be very highly paid. So, But the aggregate cost structure will come down.”
Sep 6, 2025 neutral
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 …”
Sep 6, 2025 positive
Feb 20, 2026 neutral
Feb 20, 2026 positive
Hays: Palantir's international deals justify Karp's massive private jet bill
“I might catch some flack for defending private aviation, but it just doesn't seem that crazy. The entire reason that Palantir is growing the way it is, is, like, they're doing deals in Japan. They're doing deals in, in the Middle East.”
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Karp: Business value correlates with the market's inability to understand it
“Your valuable, your value is pretty directly con convergent with people's inability to understand what you're doing. So it's like all these technologies are potentially commodifying everything. Okay. So if you are a business that is, you know, Not services, no…”
Mar 12, 2026
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
Karp: U.S. military lethality comes from tech plus real-world operator experience
“What it makes America lethal, more so than any currently country, is like a combination of obviously the technology, which we're super interested in and believe are paying a huge part in but it's like 20 years of, like, operators figuring out what worked, what…”
Mar 12, 2026 bullish
Karp: Software value will flow to differentiated specific solutions over generalizable tools
“Our products augment that, which makes it, ah, you know, augments the differentiated specific over the generalizable, and that's where literally all the value's gonna go, and it's gonna be like a waterfall, and that, that's the problem with a lot of software c…”
Mar 14, 2026 neutral
Coogan: Alex Karp shifts toward Amodei's view on AI disrupting white-collar work
“Karp did seem like pretty shifted in his opinion of how AI would impact the economy. It was definitely, definitely an update to how he's thinking, definitely more in the Dario Amadei camp of a significant impact to white collar work.”
Jun 4, 2026 bearish
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Karp: Blaming competitive layoffs on AI invites extreme political backlash
“Like if you run around saying AI allowed you to fire two thirds of your workforce and you did it because maybe your competitors kicking your ass. That could, that is a really like, you might as well just go sign up for Bernie Sanders manifest.”