Rank #224
Alexander Karp
Net worth $13.3B
Software firm · United States
- Born
- Oct 01, 1967
- Age
- 58
- Source
- Software firm
- Residence
- Lyman, New Hampshire
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Haverford College; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Stanford University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Alex Karp is cofounder and CEO of data mining firm Palantir Technologies, which received early backing from CIA investment arm In-Q-Tel.
- The company does contract work for government agencies like the Department of Defense, the FBI and the Danish National Police.
- Karp took Palantir public on the New York Stock Exchange in an unusual direct listing process in 2020.
- He met Palantir cofounder and billionaire Facebook investor Peter Thiel while at Stanford Law School.
- Karp managed money before starting Palantir in 2004, and occasionally teaches meditation classes at the company.
- In addition to his J.D. degree from Stanford, Karp holds a Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
- The rumors that Palantir helped track down bin Laden, and Palantir's failure to reject them, have reportedly led to a rocky relationship with the CIA.
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