It might sound like he’s ranting, but the Palantir chief is zeroing in on the truth of our AI moment. On this week’s episode, Paul and Rich break down Alex Karp’s recent appearance on CNBC, in which he discussed Palantir’s position within the ever-expanding world of the AI giants. Orgs might be using OpenAI and Anthropic’s tokens, but Palantir’s position exposes, in Rich’s words, “the gap between transactions and relationships.” Finally, Paul asks Rich to run the new, imaginary consulting practice at Anthropic and obliterate Palantir. Can he do it? Does he have what it takes?

Karp Carping: Decoding Palantir's Whole Deal

The Aboard Podcast

Hi, I'm Paul Ford. And I'm Rich Ciotti. And this is The Aboard Podcast, the podcast about how AI is changing the world of software delivery in so many ways, some of which are good, some of which... All right, Rich, you ready to talk about a big, weird topic? Sure. Alex Karp and Palantir. Let's do it. Let's play a theme song. Rich, I think we've tried to explain what Palantir does on this podcast many times. Yes. But it's worth a quick restatement because they actually, they come out like they are a magical force to do that.

That has super secret skills and what they actually are is a consulting firm that has a set of knowledge and data management tools. A lot of intense software, yes. And a really good process for delivering that software to government agencies, police departments. Hospitals, education, they're everywhere. Exactly. So big bureaucracies- Yes. That move terribly slow. Yep. They go in and they say, in four months, I'm going to bring my platform in. We're going to build on this.

top of it and so they have a lot of things that kind of get rid of roadblocks yes and they've been around for 20 years 20-ish years yep and alex carp is the co-founder along with peter teal along with Peter Thiel and all the problems that entails like I don't even want to over enumerate it but like they're ideologically a very messy company yes ideologically very messy very successful a right place right time moment as llms have landed because they've actually been one of the

Karp Carping: Decoding Palantir's Whole Deal

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The candid version is on a podcast,
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Karp Carping: Decoding Palantir's Whole Deal

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.