Our software helps find terrorists. If you have a problem with that, you have a problem with national security.

defenseethicsAlex Karp, Palantir CEO, interview 2020

We were profitable at the unit level from almost the beginning. The reason it took so long to show on the P&L is we were reinvesting everything into growth.

businessgrowthAlex Karp on Palantir's path to profitability, 2023

I studied Marxist philosophy under Habermas in Frankfurt. Now I build tools for the Pentagon. Life is full of plot twists.

humoridentityAlex Karp on his unusual background, 2021

We named the company after the seeing stones in Lord of the Rings. Tolkien nerds building surveillance technology for the CIA. Sounds about right.

culturehumorCommentary on Palantir's naming, widely cited

Democracies need to be able to out-analyze their adversaries. If we don't build these tools, someone with fewer ethical constraints will.

defenseethicsAlex Karp, Washington Post interview 2023

AIP lets a supply chain manager ask a question in English and get an answer from a billion rows of data. That's not incremental. That's revolutionary.

aiinnovationAlex Karp on Palantir AIP launch, earnings call 2023