I assume most readers purchased this book to learn about Alex Karp and Palantir. The book does some of that. And it is well organized and skillfully written. But the author just could not resist using Karp as a vehicle for arguing his personal political philosophy and espousing a particular animus toward conservatives generally and..
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it shows a slippery slope that this country and Trump are taking us down to….. very very scary
Very clear where this author‘s politics stand. His knowledge and understanding of current events are clearly laundered through the New York Times political agenda. I found his knowledge and understanding of broader topics to be obtuse. Calling Elon anti-Semitic or Trump fascist outright—those labels get tossed around too easily these days, ignoring the messy context…
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It’s really amazing. This “author” takes a unique opportunity to do Karp’s bio and uses it to engage in a prolonged harangue in support of his personal political polemic. Recklessly inaccurate in several respects. Potentially great story ruined by a ham-handed writer. Sad.
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Good background on Alex Karp but authors bias was presented heavily throughout the book. Shows how integrated billionaires are in the global war industry.
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I liked the historical perspective of the Alex Karp’s story and attempts to be fair but his distaste for Alex seeped out of each chapter .
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I wanted to understand more about Alex Karp and this book delivered. Good content mixed with the author’s obvious hatred of Trump was kind of annoying. Overall it was great.
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It would’ve been nice to get more of an idea about Alex Karp, but the author’s bias just kept shining through, which isn’t good. If you’re writing a biography, your biases shouldn’t overshadow the actual person you’re writing a biography about.
I was very disappointed in the author’s obvious bias. He used any and every opportunity to espouse liberal views and cited questionable “facts” like Elon Musk’s Nazi salute to name just one example. This author has no business writing nonfiction when he is so heavily biased in his views.
Does not compare to similar writing on Elon, Jobs and the like; many better reads out there