{"id":377146,"date":"2025-11-14T00:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377146\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T00:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:52:18","slug":"palantir-ceo-slams-parasitic-critics-calling-the-tech-a-surveillance-tool-not-only-is-patriotism-right-patriotism-will-make-you-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377146\/","title":{"rendered":"Palantir CEO slams ‘parasitic’ critics calling the tech a surveillance tool: ‘Not only is patriotism right, patriotism will make you rich’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is sick and tired of his critics. <\/a>That much is clear. But during the Yahoo<\/a> Finance Invest Conference Thursday, he escalated his counteroffensive, aimed squarely at analysts, journalists, and political commentators who have long attacked the company as a symbol of an encroaching surveillance state<\/a>, or as overvalued<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Karp\u2019s message: They were wrong then, they\u2019re wrong now, and they\u2019ve cost everyday Americans real money.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow often have you been right in the past?\u201d Karp said when asked why some analysts still insist Palantir\u2019s valuation is too high.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said he thinks negative commentary from traditional finance people\u2014and \u201ctheir minions,\u201d the analysts\u2014has repeatedly failed to grasp how the company operates, and failed to grasp what Palantir\u2019s retail base saw years earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you know how much money you\u2019ve robbed from people with your views on Palantir?\u201d he asked those analysts, arguing those who rated the stock a sell at $6, $12, or $20 pushed regular Americans out of one of tech\u2019s biggest winners, while institutions sat on the sidelines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBy my reckoning, Palantir is one of the only companies where the average American bought\u2014and the average sophisticated American sold,\u201d Karp continued, tone incredulous.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That sort-of populist inversion sits at the core of Karp\u2019s broader argument: The people who call Palantir a surveillance tool\u2014his word for them is \u201cparasitic\u201d\u2014understand neither the product nor the country that enabled it.<\/p>\n

\u201cShould an enterprise be parasitic? Should the host be paying to make your company larger while getting no actual value?\u201d he questioned, drawing a line between Palantir\u2019s pitch and what he said he sees as the \u201cwoke-mind-virus\u201d versions of enterprise software that generate fees without changing outcomes.<\/p>\n

Instead, Karp insists Palantir\u2019s software is built for the welder, <\/a>the truck driver, the factory technician, and the soldier\u2014not the surveillance bureaucrat.<\/p>\n

He describes the company\u2019s work as enabling \u201cAI that actually works\u201d: systems that improve routing for truck drivers, upgrade the capabilities of welders, help factory workers manage complex tasks, and give warfighters technology so advanced \u201cour adversaries don\u2019t want to fight with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

That, he argues, is the opposite of a surveillance dragnet. It\u2019s a national-security asset, part of the deeper American story. That\u2019s what Palantir\u2019s retail-heavy investor base understands: the country\u2019s constitutional and technological system is uniquely powerful, and defending it isn\u2019t just morally correct, it\u2019s financially rewarded.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only was the patriotism right, the patriotism will make you rich,\u201d he said, arguing Silicon Valley only listens to ideas when they make money. Palantir\u2019s success, in his view, is proof the combination of American military strength and technological dominance\u2014\u201cchips to ontology, above and below\u201d\u2014remains unmatched worldwide.<\/p>\n

That, he believes, is what critics get wrong. While detractors warn Palantir fuels the surveillance state, Karp argues the company exists to prevent abuses of power\u2014by making the U.S. so technologically dominant it rarely needs to project force.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur project is to make America so strong we never fight,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s very different than being almost strong enough, so you always fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karp savors the reversal: \u2018broken-down car\u2019 vs. \u2018beautiful Tesla\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karp bitterly contrasted the fortunes of analysts who doubted the company with the retail investors who stuck with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing makes me happier,\u201d he said, than imagining \u201cthe bank executive\u2026cruising along in their broken-down car,\u201d watching a truck driver or welder\u2014\u201csomeone who didn\u2019t go to an elite school\u201d\u2014drive a \u201cbeautiful Tesla\u201d paid for with Palantir gains.<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t even a metaphor. Karp said he regularly meets everyday workers who \u201care now rich because of Palantir\u201d\u2014and the people who bet against the company have themselves become a kind-of meme.<\/p>\n

Critics\u2014especially civil-liberties groups\u2014have accused Palantir for years of building analytics tools that enable government surveillance. Karp says these attacks rely on caricature, not fact.<\/p>\n

\u201cPure ideas don\u2019t change the world,\u201d he said. \u201cPure ideas backed by military strength and economic strength do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palantir CEO Alex Karp is sick and tired of his critics. That much is clear. But during the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":377147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,454,135,1802,181216,18582,16465,6270,22269,18318,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-377146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-markets","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-military-equipment","13":"tag-palantir","14":"tag-peter-thiel","15":"tag-retail","16":"tag-surveillance","17":"tag-tech-stocks","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115545318677552227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}