Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'

The Iran War has been great for business at Palantir, as the Department of Defense has doubled usage of the company’s Maven targeting system in four months. “Maven met its moment across real world events in Q1 … When the stakes are highest, when failure is measured in lives and readiness. This is where we are uniquely …

[Long John Silver]

Count me among the 10%.

[Flocke Kroes]

Judging by the votes Karp has it backwards. Over 90% here hate Palantir.

[Doctor Syntax]

I think he means that 90% of the world has never heard of them.

[Jedit]

"Over 90% here hate Palantir."

No, for the other 90% it's personal.

[Sorry that handle is already taken.]

I'm in the 90%. For me it's more of a hobby.

[Pulled Tea]

Amateur Palantir-haters Unite!

Some of us do it for the hate love of the jumped-up losers game.

[Michael Hoffmann]

As 90% of the world are likely yet aware of you...

That means 100% of the world who KNOW about Palantir, you and your super-villain antics (*) hate you.

(*) Serously, Karp so minds be of the nerdy wanna-villain losers in the first Incredibles or Megamind. Someone give him a cape - and a convenient jet engine.

[Anonymous Coward]

They’re so very wrong

It’s definitely more than 10%

[Pulled Tea]

Re: They’re so very wrong

I mean, it's the wording itself — 10% “professionally” hates Palantir.

Could be right! Bet you many of the people who are doing the hating are dedicated, high-level amateurs.

[Sorry that handle is already taken.]

Re: They’re so very wrong

He is presumably, and not indirectly, accusing anybody who disapproves of what Palantir does of being a paid shill.

[Pulled Tea]

Re: They’re so very wrong

Man, I wish. I'm still waiting for my Soros-bux from all that woke antifa false-flagging.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: They’re so very wrong

Olympic level amateurs.

[FF22]

Make that 99%...

.. (those of aware of you anyway) and you might be closer to the truth.

[Pascal Monett]

Re: Make that 99%...

And the 1% that is left is paying you for the dirty work.

[yet another bruce]

If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets.

[Mayday]

World hates us, shareholders don't

As per title.

[Matthew "The Worst Writer on the Internet" Saroff]

Mr. Karp, please dine on excrement and expire.

There is of course a more, "Anglo Saxon," way of saying that.

[nobody who matters]

Re: Mr. Karp, please dine on excrement and expire.

I generally go with FOAD

[jake]

Re: Mr. Karp, please dine on excrement and expire.

There is always ODFO ...

[Korev]

Re: Mr. Karp, please dine on excrement and expire.

See You Next Tuesday?

[Hurn]

Err... about that schoolhouse...

It wasn't Maven's fault, really, it wasn't.

And, it certainly wasn't Palantir's fault.

It's hard to see the targeting coordinates, through the crystal ball, when you have to look around the two burning hands and that big eye.

Why does Mickey Mouse get special copyright protection, when poor JRRT's estate gets ripped off ?

[jake]

Re: Err... about that schoolhouse...

Why? Because the outfits which use the shit are run by micky-mouse management.

[Filippo]

Re: Err... about that schoolhouse...

Also, I'm just saying, but if you're naming your company after a corrupted artefact that will drive everyone who uses it insane... well... one should ask oneself a couple questions before doing business with you, right? I mean, that's only marginally more subtle than calling yourself "Evil Corp".

[Jellied Eel]

Re: Err... about that schoolhouse...

At least he's honest-

“We 100 percent prioritize this nation’s security over any other variable,” he said

Which prospects from other nations contemplating placing their security, or trust into Palantir's hands might want to consider.

[jake]

I'd bet that closer to 95% ...

... of the professionals in this forum hate what you do, Sankar.

The other 5% are either 'orribly ignorant, or trolls, or some combination of both.

[Dinanziame]

Wrong guy

Karp said that, not Sankar

[jake]

Re: Wrong guy

Mea culpa ... but still, 6 of one, half dozen of the other.

Besides, most of today's C*s are plug-in replacements for each other. Nothing at all to distinguish between them. Quite the boring lot, all in all.

[Richard Gray 1]

Re: I'd bet that closer to 95% ...

You had a miss hit on your keyboard, you managed to hit S instead of the W ... of and it's an e not an a near the end...easily confused with some pronunciations...

[Noodle]

Mo money no problems

Turns out being a capitalist with no morals can be very profitable, who could have known?!

[Pascal Monett]

Re: Mo money no problems

Trump knows.

[Filippo]

So, I understand that "professionally" is the new "literally"?

[Evil Auditor]

And it still reliably identifies morons.

[Filippo]

Either that, or it means I can get paid for hating Palantir, in which case I'd like to know how to collect my check.

[Paul Herber]

Are you suggesting "professionally" is a metaphor for "literally"?

[SnailFerrous]

Mistake?

. “Maven met its moment across real world events in Q1 … When the stakes are highest, when failure is measured in lives and readiness."

So blowing up a girls school (twice) and killing over a hundred pupils and teachers with tomakawk missiles wasn't a mistake?

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Re: Mistake?

What happens if Maven says the threat to US national security is the very unstable genius, the grand fromage, the grand poobah?

Will it recommend the 25th amendment? Men in white coats? Press the big red button*? Or some other action?

*The one for ordering diet cola, not THAT other one which is very bigly bad

[Anonymous Coward]

"Digital Sovereignty"...What Was That Again??

Palantir is in active use in the NHS and the Metropolitan Police.

Yup....you can't face both ways at once with much more hypocrisy, can you??

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "Digital Sovereignty"...What Was That Again??

And the MOD

[Richard 12]

Re: "Digital Sovereignty"...What Was That Again??

So they've just declared that they will breach all contracts that aren't with the US DoD.

Not might. Will.

[stiine]

Re: "Digital Sovereignty"...What Was That Again??

That would be Janus, of the famous Roman gate, etc.

[seven of five]

“We 100 percent prioritize this nation’s [USofA] security over any other variable,”

Well. Ok then.

I think I'll keep this at hand whenever anyone suggests buying from them.

[Andy 73]

Hmmmm

For an organisation that prides itself on analysing data to get accurate statistics, claiming it's only 10% looks extremely embarrassing.

Talking of which, nothing gives "I live in my Mum's basement" quite as much as referring to plush offices staffed by sociopathic kids as the "factory floor". Indeed this whole statement is full of.. something: "On the factory floor side, the demand on the defense industrial base to ramp production and sustainment has been so acute that we have surged resources from our commercial business,"

Sustainment?

See, I'm hating them outside of office hours. They'd have to pay me for the professional hate. And no, they can't afford my "anything to do with Alex Karp" rates.

[ariels-again]

Re: Hmmmm

To use terms with which Karp and his minions are familiar, I quantify my hate of Palantit at a "prosumer" level. I could definitely hate them more if I tried, but I feel I'm past the rank amateur level. I mean, I regularly scan https://palantirwatch.org ("They watch everyone. We watch them.").

[Evil Auditor]

The only thing we will put above you is US national security.

With the well-known loose definition of "US national security", that should render Palantir and its products unacceptable for at more than 74 percent of the world-wide market. And for more than 95 percent of the population - more than 95 percent should professionally hate Palantir.

[nobody who matters]

"10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us"

only hate?...most of the other 90% completely despise you ;)

[seven of five]

I really wish they could have an Oracle License audit.

Daily.

[Philo T Farnsworth]

Personally, I'm attempting to maintain my amateur standing.

[Marcel]

Being "unpopular" because you are committing war crimes comes with the job? Right. The guy has a screw loose and should probably be n jail together with most clients, employees and investors.

[Anonymous Coward]

> "We 100 percent prioritize this nation’s security over any other variable,”

Does he seriously think anyone believes this bullshit?

It's wrong on many levels. Iran was not a security threat. Palestinian children were never a security threat. The biggest security threat is the maniac they are sucking off just to get big contracts for their shareholders.

[Omnipresent]

Evil is as Evil does

If they don't recognize you, do evil. If they still don't talk about you, do more evil. If you haven't gotten enough attention, do the most evil you can think of. If you are still not getting enough attention, make a deal with the devil. If you are still not seen as evil enough become the antichrist.

[Bebu sa Ware]

“nine tenths of the world loves us, one tenth of the world professionally hates us.”

The ⅒ is only thing there, that is factual. The other 9/10 hate Palantir on principle - a word and concept notably absent from the lexicon of superviillany.

The absolute irony of naming the company after an artefact from the conflict between good and evil in Middle Earth and then choosing the role of Sauron shouldn't escape the wise. Of course the prat is barely a third rate Sarumen.

[Evil Auditor]

Re: “nine tenths of the world loves us, one tenth of the world professionally hates us.”

It didn't escape the wise. It's only, none of the wise is in power.

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure, thanks to Palantir Hormuz is a nice place to navigate...

.... and it didn't take a magical stone to know what Iran would have done - with enough weapon left even to deliver minor damages but highly useful for propaganda damages....

[Anonymous Coward]

And they only need 10 times more wars to bring their P/E ratio down to something remotely reasonable.

Of course by that time all the insiders in the administration will have cashed out.

[ecofeco]

I wish I was getting paid to hate them

Here I am doing it for free.

Silly me.