How do you balance being an artist-type founder with the hard financial discipline Palantir shows now?
Replied byAlex Karp
Co-founder & CEO at Palantir
Niche: Technology, AI, Defense
Revenue: $1M+/month
Location: USA
Started: 2015 or
For 15-plus years many investors thought we were failing financially even as the mission worked. The trick is to keep the artistic, contrarian core but tie it to measurable outcomes. Now that revenue and earnings scale, the numbers buy freedom to stay weird. Performance buys the right to be different.
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