PERSON: Alex Karp


Employer

Palantir Technologies Inc.
Position

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Biography

Alexander Caedmon Karp (born October 2, 1967) is billionaire businessman, and the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. As of April 2022, his estimated net worth is US$1.1 billion.

Alexander Caedmon Karp was born on October 2, 1967, in New York City, the son of a Jewish father and an African American mother, Karp was raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Central High School in 1985. He has said he struggled with dyslexia from an early age.

Karp earned a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College (Haverford, Pennsylvania) in 1989, a juris doctor (JD) degree from Stanford University in 1992, and a Dr. Phil. Degree in neoclassical social theory from Goethe University Frankfurt in 2002. Karp’s 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,” which means “Aggression in the life-world: The extension of Parsons’ concept of aggression by describing the connection between jargon, aggression, and culture.”

Karp has said he successfully invested in startups and stocks after receiving an inheritance from his grandfather.

Karp founded the London-based money management firm Caedmon Group.

In 2004, along with Peter Thiel (who had been a classmate at Stanford) and others, he co-founded Palantir as CEO.

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