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Karp: A strong US movement to nationalize AI will emerge quickly
“That nobody believes me in tech, but there's gonna be a movement in this country that gets very strong very quickly to nationalize these things.”
Alex Karp says AI job loss sparks 'hang the rich' backlash
“I think the American version, if we're not careful, is not going to be the German version. I think it's going to be hang the rich. I, It's like, I think it's gonna be, not protect everybody else. It's gonna be like, look, this is too dangerous, and we're gonna…”
Karp: Low-value enterprise SaaS companies will rapidly fail
“Now, if that's how your products actually are, you are, now it's you are going to get fucked. Like, and this is going to happen so quickly.”
Karp: Either the US or China will decide the AI world order
“This is a have-have-not world. It's going to be either us or them basically deciding the world order. Because, like, these other countries, and maybe India will get involved, maybe the Arab, non-Arab, Middle East, but currently on the trajectory we're on now, …”
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…”
Karp: Palantir will extract considerably more revenue per client
“We believe we're going to make more from people in the future than in the past. Sizibly more because it's like, why should we not capture part of the value that we help create?”
Karp: Leaders become far more valuable as software automates the rest
“Actually, the interesting thing is, workers become more valuable, like, actually trained workers become more valuable. This is exactly the opposite of what people are saying, but it's true. The person at the top is actually crazy valuable. People with technica…”
Karp: Palantir has lifted millions of people into homeownership
“Palantir's lifted, one of the things I'm proudest about in the world is, We've lifted people from their mom's garage to their own house. Millions of people.”
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.”
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.”