Alex Karp: “Software Plus Heroism Can Really Slay the Giant” 12/28/22

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🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a key story on the global stage in 2022. In a conversation recorded in September, Palantir CEO Alex Karp tells Andrew Ross Sorkin and Becky Quick that modern warfare has been forever changed by this conflict. Palantir is a developer of data analysis software that went public via a direct listing in September 2020 after nearly two decades as a private company; Karp shares insight into how digital analytics has prevented a full-scale takeover of sovereign Ukraine.

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0:14.3	Every day get the best stories, debate, and analysis
0:17.8	from the biggest names in business and politics.
0:20.6	Today, a Best of 22 interview, Alex Karp, CEO of Data Analytics company Palantier on Modern Warfare.
0:27.0	Software plus heroism can really slay the giant.
0:31.0	The high stakes at play in the war in Ukraine. It's a zero-sum game in Russia
0:35.3	and there is no ability for Putin to lose. He can't just fail at war and then retire.
0:40.4	Running a big data company specializing in anti-terrorism and defense work, Karp had a dark warning
0:46.3	in the early months of war in Europe.
0:48.7	When we talked, you asked me what I thought would happen.
0:51.7	It looked like, oh, there goes. Batch like oh there goes bad shit crazy carp again
0:54.4	with some crazy prognesitation that will never happen.
0:57.1	What Alex carp thinks about the possibility of nuclear war in a conflict that is still
1:02.4	raging and what it's changed forever.
1:05.0	Every country in the world that is big is saying,
1:07.5	holy sha we thought we could just win because we're big.
1:11.0	If the people are willing to fight to die and if they have very
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