A conversation with Alexander Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies

with Alexander Karp
in Current Affairs
on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 * * * * *

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A conversation with Alexander Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies

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terrorism
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    1. roddy_anton  01/20/2010 03:34 PM Report

      Inquiring when video will get posted...thanl you

    2. DrCSwartz  08/16/2009 04:36 PM Report

      I found this a fascinating inteview from several points of view. I plan to use it to show my students about how many career changes they can anticipate -- in unanticipated directions -- as motivation for building a solid set of fundamental analytical and problem-solving skills.

      His comments on the limited audience for academic research are spot-on in my experience. I'd be intrigued to hear more about what he things educators should be researching.

      Finally, his view that there is no trade-off between personal liberties and national security resonated with me. His solution to tracking government's use of data seems brilliant and much needed.

      I hope the video gets posted soon. I've told many people to watch it.

    3. REMant  08/12/2009 02:05 PM Report

      IMHO this guy's first mistake was in going to law school and his second in going to study with Habermas and co, but his biggest was going into law enforcement, because no amount of police work is going to have any effect whatever on ending terrorism, nor, ethically, should it. That doesn't change no matter whose side you think you are on. That he believes it should tells you what kind of person he is. He'd have been better off as a novelist or a journalist, but I suppose there wasn't enough money in that either. Confining himself to occupations is of a piece: it is historical rather than design-oriented, dependent rather than independent. And this all reminds me too much of some kind of British dysutopian TV thriller. There is apparently more than one co named Palantir. This one is http://www.palantirtech.com/