How do you think about scaling Palantir given the constraints on talent?

Alex Karp
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Co-Founder & CEO at Palantir Technologies

Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. USD 680 Million/month
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Started: 2003

Every Palantir deployment requires what I call full Palantirians. These are people who can operate across our software, understand the ontology, work inside complex enterprise and defense environments, and maintain the precision standards we hold ourselves to. Training someone to that level is a multi-year process. Meanwhile, the market for sovereign AI is expanding faster than we can staff into it. I literally have people working around the clock in allied countries because I cannot move someone out of a US deployment to fill the gap. It is one of our most serious constraints. The irony is that our biggest problem right now is that we have more demand than we can handle, not the reverse.

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