We're here to serve the American people,
and my version of service is the soldiers are happier, the enemies are scared.
That voice isn't a military general or a politician.
It's the CEO of a major tech company, Alex Karp.
He runs Palantir.
And for a tech CEO, he talks a lot about war.
I don't think in win-lose.
I think in domination.
That's because his company makes software that's used by militaries and government agencies.
Our product is used on occasion to kill people.
No other CEO I have ever encountered talks the way Alex Karp talks.
That's our colleague Heather Somerville.
She covers tech and national security.
Palantir has, for most of its existence, been an outsider.
We were the most hated, most pariah.
Was very much dismissed or disliked.
Maligned for being pro-American.
It's really cultivated this cloak and dagger image over the years as being this mysterious.
company that does something with data,
does something with intelligence and national security, but nobody really knows what.