--- --- Apr 16, 2025 # Alex Karp by [Nikhil Kumar](/author/nikhil-kumar/) ## Nikhil Kumar Kumar is an executive editor at TIME.  The tech titan Alex Karp, who said that he supports Kamala Harris for president and describes his politics as "populist-left," at his home in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, June 15, 2024\. In an in-depth interview with The New York Times, the billionaire man of mystery and chief executive of the data analytics firm Palantir Technologies talks about war, artificial intelligence and America's future. (Ryan David Brown/The New York Times) The tech titan Alex Karp, who said that he supports Kamala Harris for president and describes his politics as "populist-left," at his home in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, June 15, 2024\. In an in-depth interview with The New York Times, the billionaire man of mystery and chief executive of the data analytics firm Palantir Technologies talks about war, artificial intelligence and America's future. (Ryan David Brown/The New York Times)Ryan David Brown—The New York Times/Redux As Palantir, the data-analytics giant that works closely with U.S. armed forces and intelligence agencies, has grown in value on the stock market, its chief executive, Alex Karp, has become the embodiment of a new kind of Silicon Valley billionaire: an unashamed techno-nationalist who evangelizes Western power. In a February letter to his investors, he cited Samuel Huntington, the late political scientist who authored _The Clash of Civilizations:_ “the rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ... but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence,’” Karp wrote, quoting Huntington. “He continued: ‘Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.’” The aggressive language has won Karp—who recently co-authored the New York _Times_ best seller _The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West_—legions of followers. Meanwhile, business is booming. In the same shareholder letter, Karp announced that Palantir’s revenue in 2024’s final quarter had increased by 36% over the corresponding period in 2023. _Kumar is a TIME executive editor_ Alex Karp Is on the 2025 TIME100 List ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273812/alex-karp/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273812/alex-karp/"},"headline":"Alex Karp","datePublished":"2025-04-16T10:30:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T02:29:08.768Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273812/alex-karp/","keywords":["TIME100","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades","T100Titans2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d7a62da2ecd0adf/6998c5b51500fb4ae9aa6291/time100-2025-alex-karp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nikhil Kumar","jobTitle":"Kumar is an executive editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/nikhil-kumar/"}],"creator":"Nikhil Kumar","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d7a62da2ecd0adf/6998c5b51500fb4ae9aa6291/time100-2025-alex-karp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273812/alex-karp/","name":"Alex Karp"}}]}] ```