Chad Wahlquist(@chadwahl):Karp 16 years ago…….Sometimes you have to focus on the core issues and iterate against them before you release a product……. “If you are iterating on a problem that you want to be important 3 years from now, it’s better to have engineers figuring out what the core issues are and then iterate against them.” “We’re long on dealing with the most important problems that we can find, dealing with them in a productized way so that they scale for the client… and because we’re long on that and short on what happens in near term, we are not planning to hire salespeople.” He has been consistent for a very long time

2026.09.18 00:48

Karp 16 years ago…….Sometimes you have to focus on the core issues and iterate against them before you release a product……. “If you are iterating on a problem that you want to be important 3 years from now, it’s better to have engineers figuring out what the core issues are and then iterate against them.” “We’re long on dealing with the most important problems that we can find, dealing with them in a productized way so that they scale for the client… and because we’re long on that and short on what happens in near term, we are not planning to hire salespeople.” He has been consistent for a very long time

Palantir@PalantirTech

2026.09.17 20:22

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on what model companies are really asking for when they call for regulation and why they will be nationalized. “It's a weird twist. They're asking for societal regulation to get out of the first line of defense, which is if you build a technology that can destroy 10% of the of the world, that has civil and criminal liability attached to it.” “The only way to deal with this kind of liability is to go to the government and say nationalize us, please.” "Another problem we have is seemingly everyone who understands this is on some payroll."