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Alex Karp
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Karp attending the AI Safety Summit in London, November 2023
Born
Alexander Caedmon Karp

(1967-10-02) October 2, 1967 (age 58)
New York City, U.S.
Education
OccupationBusinessman
TitleCo-founder and CEO, Palantir Technologies
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Alexander Caedmon Karp (born October 2, 1967) [1] is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. Karp began his career investing in start-up companies and stocks, and established Palantir in 2003 with Peter Thiel. [2] In 2025, Time magazine named him on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.

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In 2025, his net worth exceeded $12 billion, making him among the wealthiest 300 people in the world as reported by Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index .

Early life and background

Alexander Caedmon Karp was born in New York City, [2] [3] the eldest son of Robert Joseph Karp, a Jewish clinical pediatrician, [4] and Leah Jaynes Karp, an African American artist. [5] [6] [7] He grew up with his younger brother, Oliver "Ben" Karp, in Philadelphia. [8] [9] [10] Like his father, [11] he attended Central High School in Philadelphia graduating in 1985. [6] [12] He said he struggled with dyslexia from an early age. [7] Alexander Karp was influenced by his parents' activism for civil rights and social justice during his youth and went to many protests. [13] [2] He said what he inherited from his maternal side was "a strong affinity to fighting discrimination". [14] Karp noted that some black people considered him black while some did not. He said that, "I view me as me. And I'm very honored to be honored by all groups that will have me." [8] Karp's paternal side of the family originally comes from Germany. [15] He said that before he went to Germany, he had underestimated how German his upbringing had been. [16]

Karp initially wanted to be a social theorist. [17] He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, in 1989, [18] then enrolled at Stanford Law School, where he earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 1992. [19] [20] [3] While at Stanford, Karp met Peter Thiel. The two bonded over their exasperation with the law school and a passion for political debates. Thiel recalled that, "He was more the socialist, I was more the capitalist. He was always talking about Marxist theories of alienated labor and how this was true of all the people around us." [2] [7] Karp said that he felt different at "every institution I interacted with". At each, he would think, "I can navigate this place, but I am not a part of it." [2]

After his undergraduate studies and law school, Karp earned a PhD in neoclassical social theory from Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany in 2002. [19] [20] [3] Thiel was the only one who supported his decision to go to Frankfurt for the PhD. [21] His doctoral thesis, supervised by Karola Brede, was titled "Aggression in der Lebenswelt: Die Erweiterung des Parsonsschen Konzepts der Aggression durch die Beschreibung des Zusammenhangs von Jargon, Aggression und Kultur" (Aggression in the Lifeworld: The Extension of Parsons' Concept of Aggression by Describing the Connection Between Jargon, Aggression, and Culture). [22] [23] [24] Brede told him he could write the thesis in English, but he replied that it was important to him that he could write it in German. [25] He lived in Frankfurt from the mid-1990s to 2001 and considered staying forever, but ultimately decided to go back to the U.S. for work. [25] [16]

Career

Business career

Karp began a career as a research associate at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt. [2] He received an inheritance from his paternal grandfather ($12,000), with which he found London-based money management firm Caedmon Group. [26] After he gained some successes with the stock market, some European high-net-worth individuals invested in his company. [27] [26] Karp later claimed that his goal at the time was to amass $250,000 to return to Berlin to read and write as a dilettante. [26]

For some time, he helped Thiel to gather funding for Clarium Capital. [28] In 2004, along with Thiel and others, Karp co-founded Palantir Technologies as CEO. [27] [29] The New York Times ranked Karp the highest-paid CEO of a publicly traded company in 2020, the year the company went public, with compensation worth $1.1 billion. [30] In 2024, he was the highest-paid CEO of a publicly traded company in the United States, with a "compensation actually paid" of almost $6.8 billion. [31] The Economist chose Karp as the 2024 CEO of the Year. [32] [33] He is also co-managing director at Frankfurt-based Palantir Technologies Gmbh, and sits on the board of Palantir Technologies UK Ltd.. [34] [35]

According to Steinberger, Karp had no previous technical or business training, but his background in philosophy helped with understanding ethical or political concerns. [36] Karp loathes companies like Google and Facebook, worrying that if one day the people turn against Big Data, they will not realize that unlike the others, Palantir does not collect or sell data. Facebook became the foil against which Palantir defined its identity. Steinberger thinks that this was partly because Thiel invested and sat on the board of Facebook, so a kind of sibling rivalry developed. Later when Palantir expanded in Palo Alto and took over a former Facebook office where there was a famous wall painted by a grafitti artist who had gained $200 million in Facebook stock, they painted over the wall. [37] After the company moved to Palo Alto, Thiel rarely went to the office anymore, but helped with recruiting. [38] There were also differences in philosophy, with Thiel complaining about Karp always choosing the hard, complex way when a more straightforward path might have sufficed. But he largely left the operation of the company in Karp's hand. [39] Joe Lonsdale left the company in 2009 and Nathan Gettings in 2012, but Stephen Cohen stays and helps, especially in technical matters. [40]

In 2024, Karp was 1143rd on the Forbes annual World's Billionaires List with a net worth of $2.9 billion. [41] In 2025 his net worth at times exceeded $12 billion, ranking him among the 300 wealthiest people in the world on the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List [42] and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index . [43] [44]

Board and advisory roles

Political activities

He is a frequent participant of the Reagan National Defense forum, which is an annual gathering of "generals, military strategists, and defense industrial companies", now also open to tech leaders like Karp and Bezos. [48] At the 2023 edition of the forum, he stated that "Somehow the corporate elite of this country thinks when it’s time to make money, you stand up, and when it’s time to stand up, you go play golf. And we’ve got to change that. That’s our fault". [49]

The 2025 documentary "Watching you – Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp" explores the political and business network that Karp has built in Germany. [50] [51] He helps build connections between American and German politicians through transatlantic organizations such as the Atlantik-Brücke. [52]

He is a member of the steering committee of Bilderberg Meeting. [53] [54] The secret meeting between Karp, Thiel and Sweden's prime minister Ulf Kristersson at the 2025 Bilderberg meeting has caused controversies in Sweden (Kristersson was not on the official list). [55] Karp also participates in the Munich Security Conference. [56] [57]

Dutch MEP Sophie in ’t Veld tracks the close proximity between Karp and his company Palantir with EU leaders like Ursula von der Leyen and Margrethe Vestager, noting that when the EU delegation visited Washington in 2019, the only private company they contacted was Palantir. [58] In June 2022, he was the first CEO of a major Western company to meet president Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Russia invaded Ukraine. [8] [59]

Views

Political views

On the West

In 2025 Time magazine listed Karp as one of the world's 100 most influential people, calling him "the embodiment of a new kind of Silicon Valley billionaire: an unashamed techno-nationalist who evangelizes Western power". [60] In naming him to the Time 100 list, the magazine noted that in a letter to investors Karp quoted Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations, "the rise of the West was not made possible 'by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ... but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence'." Karp wrote that "Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do." [60] During a New York Times interview, Karp said "you scare the crap out of your adversaries" and "are we tough enough to scare our adversaries so we don’t go to war? Do the Chinese, Russians and Persians think we’re strong?" Maureen Dowd, a journalist, said the interview was "brim[ming] with American chauvinism". [8]

In 2024 The New York Times quoted Karp, saying that he and his company Palantir have "a consistently pro-Western view, that the West has a superior way of living and organizing itself". [8] In the same interview, Karp said that the US would very likely face a three-front war against China, Russia, and Iran in the future. He opined that the best way to prepare for it would be developing autonomous weapons. In Karp's opinion, the West and the China-Russia-Iran side were at technological parity but the West had a disadvantage when it came to moral disparity, because the West would likely not use nuclear weapons, but their adversaries might. He told the Times that he was pro-draft. [8]

On US politics

In 2018, Karp said he is a socialist [61] and a progressive ("but not woke"). [8] In addition he said he voted for Hillary Clinton. [62] In 2024, the Financial Times identified Karp as "a major Biden donor". [63] Current Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson wrote in 2024 that Karp "seems to have some idiosyncratic personal definition in mind that has nothing in common with the socialist tradition". [64] In 2024, Karp said that while he is "not thrilled" with the direction of the Democratic Party that he would still be "voting against Trump". [65] In 2024, he called for the Democrats to project more strength, saying "Are we tough enough to scare our adversaries so we don’t go to war? Do the Chinese, Russians and Persians think we’re strong? The president needs to tell them 'if you cross these lines, this is what we’re going to do', and you have to then enforce it." He protested open-border policies in the U.S. and Europe: "You have an open border, you get the far right. [...] And once you get them, you can’t get rid of them." [8] In 2025, he said that he views himself as a "classic [sic] liberal". [66] In a November 2025 interview with Wired , he said that to a family member that disagreed with him in a private conversation, "I would be pointing out that Trump’s decisions on AI, and his decisions on the Middle East, are very different than people in the Democratic Party would have made, and very good." Also, he would consider the Democratic Party to have left him if the Zohran Mamdani wing took over, which he viewed as the result of "[the] role played [by u]niversities and elite institutions [that are] teaching pagan religion views", describing one "[portraying an] AI-driven, AGI environment where no one has a job [because] labor is going to be valueless". [67]

Interviewed by his biographer Michael Steinberger (whose book The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State was published in November 2025), Karp cites the Democrats' unresponsiveness to immigration, Iran and attitude to antisemitism ("They talk all the time about racism but won't talk about antisemitism") as reasons for his disillusion with the party. Steinberger remarks that Karp was particularly concerned about the anti-Israel protests that erupted after the October 7 attacks in Israel. [68]

Karp has condemned "woke" ways of thinking, calling them the central risk to his company Palantir, and to the United States as a whole. [69] He has called Palantir a "counter-example" to companies he considers "woke". [69] In 2025, he adopted the framing woke left and woke right, defining the former as the aforementioned Mamdani wing and the latter as "everything is a conspiracy, any use of technology is actually going to only be used to eviscerate and attack us", categorizing both as "[not wanting] meritocracy". [67]

On the United States government

Karp said that technology companies like Palantir have an obligation to support the U.S. military. [62] He said that he and Palantir are "active in defending the values of the West" and "our belief that the West is a superior way to live". [69] He defended Palantir's contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the controversy over family separations, saying that while separations are "a really tough, complex, jarring moral issue", he favors "a fair but rigorous immigration policy". [70] He said the U.S. government should have a strong hand in tech regulation [71] and that western countries should dominate AI research. [72]

On the Gaza war

Karp made a number of remarks on the Gaza war strongly supporting Israel. He has strongly condemned the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses, calling their views a "pagan religion" and "an infection inside of our society". [73] [74] At the AI Expo for National Competitiveness, he remarked that "the peace activists are war activists" [73] and said that protestors should be sent to North Korea. [74] In December 2023 during the demonstrations at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, he said "There is literally no way to explain the investment in our elite schools, and the output is a pagan religion—a pagan religion of mediocrity, and discrimination, and intolerance, and violence." [75] [8] Palantir announced that they would set aside 180 positions for Jewish college graduates, citing alleged antisemitism on college campuses related to the protests. [69] [75] [8]

On Germany

When he was a PhD student at Frankfurt, he criticized Martin Walser's criticism of Germany's culture of Holocaust remembrance (Walser argued that it was a moral cudgel the liberal intelligentsia used to suppress nationalism in the newly united Germany). Decades later, in The Technological Republic, he embraced Walser's idea, saying that it represented "the forbidden desires and feelings of a nation". [76] Professor Karola Brede, his former doctoral thesis supervisor, notes that he always had a type of political agility associated with liberalism. When he was young, he had an affinity with the FDP. He tried to persuade CDU member Michel Friedman, who lived on the same street in Frankfurt, that Friedman chose the wrong party. [25] In 2019 though, he said that in Germany he would vote for the CDU. [77]

In September 2025, he called for German leaders to "talk about the crisis". He suggested a plan to improve the situation in Germany and save the industry: 1. Promoting the political power of the founders and business leaders, who would bring about the change, rather than promoting the power of the political class. He specifically referred to SAP CEO Christian Klein; 2. Creating special technological zones with less regulations and laxer labor rules; 3. Creating specialized micromodels of economic structures (instead of copying Silicon Valley), that focused on Germany's strengths: industrial AI for cars, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and mechanical engineering; 4. Telling the population about the crisis, explaining to them that both prosperity and the welfare state could only be maintained if the industrial and technological development could be secured; German pacifism was the country's Achilles' heel and should be dealt with when the country was building deterrents; 5. Misguided policies on immigration, energy (especially the nuclear energy policy) and technology, that had squandered the German advantage, should be changed. He saw his company Palantir as a continuance of German legacy and virtues. He complained about the perception of his friend and co-founder Peter Thiel, who he said was undeservingly villified by the media. [78]

In 2023, at the opening of the art exhibition "Dimensions. Digital Art since 1859" in Leipzig – supported and sponsored by Karp, Sigmar Gabriel (former vice chancellor of Germany, and chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke) and Tim Höttges (CEO of Deutsche Telekom) – he advocated for more control in the U.S. but more innovative spirit in Europe, saying, "We can't leave the entire future to the Americans." [79]

Business views

Karp is a critic of short sellers, and said he loves "burning the short sellers". [80] He compared them to cocaine addicts and said that they "just love pulling down great American companies". [80] In 2024, he received criticism for selling $1.9 billion of Palantir shares. [81] In February 2025, during a talk promoting his book, he said "I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us." [81]

Personal life

Karp lives in Lyman, New Hampshire. [82] [83] When a reporter observed that he owns "10 houses around the world, from Alaska to Vermont, from Norway to New Hampshire", Karp joked that "You have to reframe that as I have 10 cross-country ski huts." [84] [8] In a 2024 interview he described himself as Jewish, [8] and commented (after being asked) in another interview that while this background informed Palantir having Israel as its client, he did not believe it purely did so. [67]

As of 2025, Karp is in two long-term relationships with two women. He was described as "geographically monogamous". [85]

He is described as a wellness fanatic who swims, skis cross country, and practices martial arts. He has stated that he practices tai chi and that it should not be confused with qigong. He keeps tai chi swords in his offices. He is highly skilled with handguns, and a reporter observed him "expertly hit targets ... from 264 yards" with a BUL Armory SAS II Bullesteros 9mm competition pistol. [29] [86] [8]

Karp never learned to drive a car. He said, "I was too poor. And then I was too rich.” [8] He said the thought of having children "gives me hives". [87] His uncle, Gerald Jaynes, is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics, African American Studies, and Urban Studies at Yale. [8] [88] Like his friend Thiel, Karp always only uses German cars when travelling. [89]

According to Michael Steinberger, "No matter where he is, he still speaks German for half the day. He has Austrian assistants who are also his closest confidants — two or three of them are almost always with him. In every Palantir branch, he has his own office, and when he’s there, German is often spoken." [21]

Karp is fluent in German and speaks French. [87]

In 2025, he was awarded the Lamplighter award, presented to him by Rabbi Levi Shemtov. He has called for the Jewish community to leave their comfort zone to defend themselves against increasing antisemitism. [90]

In media

Karp is the subject of the 2024 German documentary film Watching You: The World of Palantir and Alex Karp, directed by Klaus Stern  [ de ], which explores Palantir's influence and Karp's career, including interviews with former colleagues, politicians, and critics; Karp chose not to participate in the documentary. [51]

Karp, with co-author with Nicholas Zamiska, published The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West in February 2025. The book offers a critical perspective on Silicon Valley's complacency and the West's waning ambition, arguing that the software industry must partner with government to tackle urgent challenges, particularly the AI arms race. [91] [92]

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