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Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Davos Day 3 5/25/22

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Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.2543 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

At the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Palantir CEO Alex Karp addresses data’s role in global warfare, criticism the company has faced over the years, the risk of nuclear war, Biden’s comments on Taiwan and the tech industry. In comments exclusive to this podcast, Andrew Ross Sorkin shares context on the polarizing data analytics company, its founders, and the life habits (sleep!) that keep them all going. In this episode: Alex Karp, @PalantirTech Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie Cameron Costa, @CameronCostaNY

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0:00.0

Bring in show music please.

0:03.0

Hi, I'm C.M.C. producer Cameron Costa.

0:07.0

Today on Squawk Pod at the World Economic Forum in Davos,

0:11.0

Andrew Ross Sorkin sits down with founder and CEO of Palantier, Alex Karp.

0:18.0

Palantiers have launched five of the most important products in the world, some of which are playing an active role in every part of your life, both in terms of disseminating

0:25.0

COVID, vaccine. Every time we launch a product, people think we're idiots or crazy or insane,

0:30.0

and very often these products power the world.

0:32.0

The polarizing tech products that have proved

0:34.7

as controversial as they are influential. We are perhaps a little too used to being unpopular and

0:41.2

you know sometimes kind of enjoy it. so now we're trying to have a

0:43.8

more peaceful friendly approach. Data's role in the war in Ukraine and whether

0:48.8

there's a right side to history. Product product that supplied your vaccine.

0:53.0

Products that are involved in every war effort in the world come from us.

0:57.6

That interview, plus some tips on sleep with a familiar voice here on the pod our host Katie Kramer returns.

1:04.4

It calls in the business sleep fitness.

1:06.7

There's a biz.

1:08.0

There's a biz.

1:08.7

Sleep fitness, sleep efficiency.

1:10.9

It's Wednesday, May 25th, 2022, and Squawkpad where we're delivering unto you the best of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

1:32.0

And today's big interview, a sit-down with Palantier co-founder and

1:36.3

CEO Alex Karp. Palantier is a hugely influential, hugely controversial software company that's provided data services

1:45.3

for companies around the world like Merck, Airbus, and United Airlines.

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