Palantir CEO Alex Karp on CNBC (screenshot)
Alex Karp, the billionaire businessman best known as the co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, a data mining software firm, said that he lost employees due to his company’s support for Israel since the terrorist group Hamas enacted its barbaric massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023.
Palantir even went so far as to hold its first board meeting of 2024 in Tel Aviv. It also took out a full-page ad in the New York Times a week after the attack that read simply, “Palantir Stands with Israel.”
Not long after the October 7 massacre, Alex Karp told investors that he was, “exceedingly proud that after Oct. 7, within weeks, we (Palantir) are on the ground and we are involved in operationally crucial operations in Israel.”
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Alex Karp told CNBC’s show “Money Moves” “We’ve lost employees. I’m sure we’ll lose employees.”
“If you have a position that does not cost you ever to lose an employee, it’s not a position,” he added.
Interestingly, Alex Karp describes himself as being a socialist and a progressive. Karp said he voted for Hillary Clinton.
“We’re going to get as close to telling you how we see the world as we’re legally and ethically allowed to. We also do this externally,” said Karp.
Palantir has had a strong position of support for the American administration as well as Israel for years. In 2019, Alex Karp explained that he knew this was not good for business saying, “It is not intelligible. It is not intelligible to the average person. It’s academically not sustainable. And I am very happy we’re not on that side of the debate.”
According to his official bio, Alex Karp served in various positions with Palantir since co-founding the firm. He has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2003. Mr. Karp holds a B.A. from Haverford College, a J.D. from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
