Dr. Alex Karp is a unique talent, working to advance America’s place in the world. He is one for the foremost CEOs, dedicating his company’s resources and technologies to help our military, our DPS officers, and our government use the best technologies to maximize the value of the information they have. This is counter to the current cultures in Silicon Valley (Meta, Alphabet, Amazon) who avoid government work as they focus on consumer nonsense, The various Palantir platforms can quickly integrate many different databases and older IT technologies making the information far more useful. It’s worth the listen to learn about these technologies (and how there save lives) and to learn about the amazing Dr. Alex Karp. Be prepared to hear Michael Steinberger’s frequent rants about President Trump and how bad he is (major TDS). He wastes about 10% of the book on these rants which can distract the listener. The Epilogue, in particular, is an up-to date rant about Trump and very little about Palantir or Karp. Caveat emptor…