About Alex Karp
Alexander Caedmon Karp (born October 2, 1967) is an American billionaire businessman and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. Karp earned his J.D. degree from Stanford Law School and a doctorate in social theory from Goethe University Frankfurt. He subsequently worked in finance, founding the investment firm Caedmon Group, where he managed money for clients including wealthy European investors and invested in start-up companies and stocks. At Stanford, he met Peter Thiel and in 2003, they alongside three others co-founded Palantir. In 2025, his net worth exceeded $18 billion, making him among the wealthiest 200 people in the world as reported by Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and Time magazine named him on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people of that year. == Early life and education == Alexander Caedmon Karp was born on October 2, 1967 in New York City, the eldest son of Robert Joseph Karp, a Jewish clinical pediatrician, and Leah Jaynes Karp, an African American artist. He grew up with his younger brother, Oliver "Ben" Karp, in Philadelphia. Like his father, Karp attended Central High School in Philadelphia, graduating in 1985. He said he struggled with dyslexia from an early age.
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