Alex Karp, The CIA, and the Rise of Palantir [ffwD40WGjjP]
What do you really know about Palantir? It started just one month after DARPA canceled a controversial surveillance project. It was seed-funded by the CIA, co-founded by Peter Thiel, and led by Alex Karp — a man with a deep skepticism of Silicon Valley and a public love/hate relationship with power. Today, it’s a $300 billion surveillance powerhouse whose software is used by everyone from Ferrari to the CIA, predicting behavior with systems like Gotham and Foundry. This isn’t just a tech story — it’s a warning.