The Wisdom Wall

9 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.

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“There, there are two that everybody's worried about like their future, but there are basically two ways to know you have a future. One, you have some vocational training. So it's like, or two, you're neurodivergent.”

Alex Karp, Mar 12, 2026

“What does the business of the future look like? 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 technical expertise…”

Alex Karp, Sep 6, 2025

“all these things can be scaled in a very valuable but largely going to commodify way, but you can't scale the taste of, like, what is the business problem you want to have to solve and need to solve?”

Alex Karp, Jun 4, 2026

“They increase the size of the market because de facto, nobody wants to find an underrated market where there's only one person. So like, if you're the one person, the percentage of the defense budget you can get is much smaller. And two, they set up a comparator.”

Alex Karp, Jun 4, 2026

“The simple math would be, it's one 60 on one test, but you've got to pass differentiated tests over a long period of time, so it's a thousand tests. So de facto, by the 50th step, it's zero IQ.”

Alex Karp, Mar 12, 2026

“your valuable, your, your value is pretty directly con, uh, uh, convergent with people's inability to understand what you're doing. So it's like, it's like all these technologies are potentially commodifying everything. Okay. So if you are a business that is, you know, Not services, not product, but both, but also…”

Alex Karp, Mar 12, 2026

“the logic of software should be We charge you something downstream of, of, of value creation. That sum is a percentage of the value we create. It's better for both sides because it's, uh, it's, it's, it's significantly less than the value creates. Good for us because there's a multiple on the value.”

Alex Karp, Sep 4, 2025

“The, the value of LLM is when it's essentially in an ontology wrapper, because to, to, 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, and its tribal knowledge, and what it's trying to…”

Alex Karp, Sep 4, 2025

“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 wherever they go.”

Alex Karp, Sep 4, 2025
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