Palantir CEO Alex Karp & CNBC’s Davos Team

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Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Ross Sorkin reflects on his interview with Alex Karp, CEO and Co-founder of Palantir, the software and data services company with $1.5B in government contracts. The two cover Palantir’s relationship with ICE, Silicon Valley’s role in society, Apple’s encryption, and Jeff Bezos’ WhatsApp account. Plus, some behind the scenes and sounds from the team on the ground in Davos.

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0:00.0	Bring in Show Music, please.
0:04.0	This is Squawk Pod, the daily podcast brought to you by the team behind Squawk Box.
0:10.0	Stand by Andrew straight up there.
0:11.0	See MBC's essential morning show. Where's Cameron? Oh, hello. I amisses, see M. We're camera.
0:14.0	Every day get the best stories, debate, and analysis from the biggest names in business and politics.
0:19.0	You guys hearing this?
0:20.0	Yep.
0:21.0	Today on Squawk Pot. The World Economic Forum 2020 might have wrapped, but there is still plenty
0:28.0	of CMBC's coverage that didn't make it to broadcast, like the full interview with Alex Karp, CEO of high profile and
0:35.7	controversial tech company Palantir.
0:38.0	Currently when you're a warfighter your life depends on your software. They will
0:42.1	never trust you if you pull the plug just because you're
0:44.4	unpopular. And Andrew Ross Sorkin's reflections on it.
0:48.0	You take shots at Silicon Valley. Basically, admitted he has taken the Google
0:52.4	MAVEN project, which of course was controversial and they were walk-out. basically admitted he has taken the Google
0:52.5	maven project which of course was controversial and there were
0:54.6	walkouts at Google about that and even got into whether
0:57.6	NBS really could have sent a what's that text to Jeff Bezos.
1:00.9	The anchors debrief on this week's events.
1:04.0	It was.
1:06.0	It was.
1:07.0	It was.
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