Alexander Karp
Cofounder and CEO, Palantir Technologies
$4.4B
$75.3M (1.7%)
as of 10/04/24
About Alexander Karp
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.
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Palo Alto, CaliforniaMarital status
SingleBirth date
10/01/67 (age 57)Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Haverford College; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Stanford UniversitySelf-made
self-madeAlexander Karp’s fortune is worth
73K
troy ounces of gold
68K
median U.S. household
44K
median U.S. income
0.088%
U.S. credit card volume
0.018%
GDP of the United States
0.013%
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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.
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