Alex Karp says the reason Palantir is so unique is because of their willingness to be "non-mimetic":
"When the whole world said software had to be worthless—we built platforms that worked."
"When the whole world said you couldn't extend it with FDEs—we built FDEs."
"When the whole world is saying build AI slop without an ontology that allows you to put truths into the ontology and produce actual results—we stuck to our guns."
"And what did we get? We got these results."