THE OUTSIDER'S EDGE: BROKEN GLASS AND BLACK OPS
He's not your typical tech CEO. Alex Karp, armed with a JD from Stanford and a PhD in social theory, co-founded Palantir in 2003 as a philosopher-turned-spy-craft evangelist. Since then, he's steered it into the heart of U.S. defense, impacting everything from battlefield strategy to global surveillance with tools like Gotham and Foundry Today.
This isn't a memoir it's a manifesto. In The Technological Republic (2025), Karp pulls no punches attacking Silicon Valley's hunger for convenience and demanding a revival of Western collaborative grit, where software becomes the backbone of democracy and security