Alexander C. Karp
Palantir co-founder and CEO
Alexander C. Karp co-founded the software company Palantir Technologies and is its CEO. He is the author of The Technological Republic.
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American Born 1967 in New York City, United States
About Alexander C. Karp
Alexander C. Karp is an American businessman, born on October 2, 1967. He studied at Haverford College and Stanford Law School, and he holds a doctorate in social theory from Goethe University Frankfurt. Before Palantir, he worked in finance and founded the investment firm Caedmon Group. He met Peter Thiel at Stanford, and in 2003 they and three others started Palantir Technologies. Time magazine put him on its Time 100 list in 2025. BookBits features his book The Technological Republic.