Palantir CEO Alex Karp says DOGE is a 'revolution' and 'some people are going to get their heads cut off'

[Eugene]

Source: Business Insider

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says DOGE is a 'revolution' and 'some people are going to get their heads cut off'

Julia Hornstein,Kelsey Vlamis
Updated Tue, February 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM EST 3 min read

Alex Karp, the cofounder and CEO of the software company Palantir, said that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency would disrupt the US government — and that it would be good for Americans and the company he leads.

"We love disruption, and whatever is good for America will be good for Americans and very good for Palantir," Karp said in response to a question about DOGE during the company's quarterly earnings call on Monday.

"Disruption, at the end of the day, exposes things that aren't working," he said. "There will be ups and downs. There's a revolution. Some people are going to get their heads cut off. We're expecting to see really unexpected things and to win."

Two weeks into President Donald Trump's second term, the DOGE-induced disruptions have included moves to dismantle the US Agency for International Development, the agency that handles US foreign aid, and buyouts for federal workers.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. "We love disruption". That works in commerce, not in governance. The opposite is desirable for governance

Before long even magas will moan about missing stability.

[Orrex]

11. And they hate disruption, in fact. All businesses do.

What they love is aggressively stacking the deck in their favor under the guise of disruption, but they hate actual disruption almost as much as they they hate treating employees as people.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. In general, business hates disruption. But innovative businesses love certain kinds of disruption

Businesses like Palantir, Facebook, FedEx, Visicalc, Ford Motors, Fulton Steamship company, ....

When Ford began building cars cheap, it disrupted the existing motor car market in a huge way, not to forget the buggy whip companies. Steamships disrupted sailing companies and ferry companies and stagecoach companies by providing cheaper faster transportation. As did railroads. Visicalc put bookkeepers out of work.

Those kinds of disruption is what I was considering.

But you are correct. There is a lot of underhanded behaviour being excused. And your other point is correct, that even innovative companies do not want to disrupt things like capital markets which is their access to growth.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Tech bros are part of the coup to take over the US govt.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Disruption? Like the 67 people who lost their lives?

That's good?

[Eugene]

4. It serves a "greater good," and deaths are a sacrifice they are happy to make.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Where did these "tech bros" like Karp ever get the idea

that anyone gives a rat's ass what their opinion is? Yet they seem compelled to offer their nuggets of "wisdom" at every opportunity.

Or, in his case, "butt nuggets of wisdom."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Plus one for making me smile reading "butt nuggets" . . . . nt

[TommyT139]

6. Palantir is Peter Thiel's spyware company.

...You know, Peter Thiel who bought JD Vance a political career.

(The rethugs sure hate the gays, except for the billionaire ones, don't they.)

[BigMin28]

7. Money is their god

Nothing else matters. Certainly not people or their lives.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. No tis only their green god. They have an orange one too, & are trying to punish companies who don't bend. nt

[GoCubsGo]

8. May it be your own head, Alex.

Figuratively, or not. Along with all of those around you. The sooner, the better.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Oh Alex, don't lose your head

You may want to run out and get an armour plated turtleneck.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. The French Revolution was a grand disruption. Didn't take long for it to be replaced by an Emporer

Many rich people lost their heads.

[orangecrush]

10. Starting with you

Pig.

[Brenda]

12. We all know the Pentagon has the most

money and corruption. So why didn't the Doge boys start there?

What about Space Force, oil company and other large corporation subsidies?

This chaos cannot be sustained.

They think regular Americans won't notice this but the trickle down from all of these cuts and eliminations will hit every single one of us.

Uncharted territory but probably means Rebellion and violence is on the way.

[hatrack]

13. Ask Stockton Rush about "moving fast and breaking things" in the real world, motherfucker.

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[Vinca]

14. DOGE is a coup.

[eppur_se_muova]

19. These people have appallingly simple-minded views of how the world works. They manipulate words, but reality ...

... has a way of biting back which they appear to be constitutionally incapable of dealing with.

Anyone who "loves disruption" hasn't been disrupted yet. Karma will bite Mr. Karp in the ass, and it will be crippling -- IF he's lucky.