{"id":38320,"date":"2025-11-11T07:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/alex-karp-says-the-lefts-mamdani-wing-and-the-woke-right-are-the-biggest-threats-to-palantir\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T07:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:02:41","slug":"alex-karp-says-the-lefts-mamdani-wing-and-the-woke-right-are-the-biggest-threats-to-palantir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/alex-karp-says-the-lefts-mamdani-wing-and-the-woke-right-are-the-biggest-threats-to-palantir\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Karp says the left&#8217;s &#8216;Mamdani wing&#8217; and the &#8216;woke right&#8217; are the biggest threats to Palantir"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6912bde362a04500b316210a?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Palantir CEO Alex Karp visits &quot;The Claman Countdown&quot; with host Liz Claman at Fox Business Network Studios on October 23, 2025 in New York City.\"\/><figcaption>The biggest threats to Palantir come from the woke left and woke right, Palantir CEO Alex Karp says.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Alex Karp has his sights set on major threats to Palantir.<\/li>\n<li>That&#039;s the &quot;woke left&quot; and right-wing conspiracy theorists, he says.<\/li>\n<li>On a November earnings call, Karp said Palantir is &quot;the first company to be completely anti-woke.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the biggest threats to his defense tech company aren&#039;t competitors in the field, but the &quot;woke left&quot; and right-wing conspiracy theorists.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our competition is actually political. The woke left and the woke right wake up every day, figuring out how they can hurt Palantir. And if they get into power, they&#039;ll hurt Palantir,&quot; Karp told Wired&#039;s Steven Levy in an interview published on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If, like, the Mamdani wing of the Democratic Party takes over \u2014 I viewed that as my party. But if that&#039;s the party, I&#039;m not in it,&quot; Karp said, referring to New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>Karp added that another threat is the &quot;right woke wing.&quot; He said that includes people who think &quot;everything is a conspiracy&quot; and that &quot;any use of technology is actually going to only be used to eviscerate and attack us.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Levy pressed Karp on how Mamdani could be a threat to Palantir. Karp said messaging about AI cutting jobs has driven what he sees as electoral hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you explain to the world that labor is going to be valueless, people are going to elect the most ridiculous people ever,&quot; Karp said.<\/p>\n<p>He said working-class people need to see that their labor will become more valuable, not less, because of products like Palantir&#039;s.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you run around saying that, you know, &#039;Oh, the economy is gonna completely shiftto value creation only owned by 10,000 people,&#039; people on the left and the right are gonna go nuts,&quot; Karp added.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani&#039;s press team did not respond to a request for commentsent by Business Insider about Karp&#039;s statements.<\/p>\n<p>In recent interviews with Axios and CNBC, Karp slammed the mayor-elect.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The percentage of Democrats who know that nothing Mamdani is saying can ever work is very high,&quot; Karp told Axios in an interview published on November 8.<\/p>\n<p>Karp has long eschewed party-line politics. On a November earnings call, Karp said that Palantir is &quot;the first company to be completely anti-woke.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Karp has found himself tangling with famed &quot;The Big Short&quot; investor Michael Burry.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Burry&#039;s Scion Asset Management filed documents showing it bet against Nvidia and Palantir last quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Karp responded on CNBC, calling Burry&#039;s bet against &quot;chips and ontology&quot; a &quot;batshit crazy&quot; move.<\/p>\n<p>Burry hit back at Karp on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Doesn&#039;t surprise me one bit that Alex Karp and his &#039;ontology&#039; @PalantirTech cannot crack a simple 13F,&quot; Burry wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest threats to Palantir come from the woke left and woke right, Palantir CEO Alex Karp says. Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images Alex Karp has his sights set on major threats to Palantir. That&#039;s the &quot;woke left&quot; and right-wing conspiracy theorists, he says. 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