Alex Karp

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Alexander C. Karp (born October 2, 1967 ) is an American entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies .

Life

Karp received his bachelor's degree from Haverford College and a law degree from Stanford University . In 2002 he received his doctorate from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He wrote his dissertation on "Aggression in the Lifeworld: The Extension of Parsons' Concept of Aggression by Describing the Connection between Jargon, Aggression and Culture". In 2004 he founded Palantir Technologies with Peter Thiel (whom he knew from Stanford) and investors Joe Lonsdale, Nathan Gettings and computer scientist Stephen Cohen.

Palantir's data analysis software is used in particular by the US secret services, but the Hessian Interior Ministry also bought the Palantir software Gotham in 2018 . The opposition in the Hessian state parliament criticized the procedure for awarding the contract.

further activities

In December 2015 Karp was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Economist and in 2018 to the Supervisory Board of Axel Springer SE . He is also a member of the steering committee of the Bilderberg Conferences .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PDF , d-nb.info (accessed on May 21, 2018)
  2. ^ Siobhan Gorman: How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade. In: Wall Street Journal . September 4, 2009, accessed September 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Arvid Kaiser: Mysterious Startup Palantir: From social critic via CIA to billionaire. In: manager magazin . June 25, 2015, accessed September 27, 2016 .
  4. ↑ What specifically does Palantir do?
  5. ↑ Combating terrorism: Hesse's police buy software from controversial US company . In: Spiegel Online . April 6, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 21, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Supervisory Board Axel Springer SE. Retrieved October 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/steering-committee.html (accessed on May 21, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Karp, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karp, Alexander C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur, founder of Palantir Technologies
DATE OF BIRTH October 2nd, 1967