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Palantir CEO Alex Karp has spoken out towards Ivy League graduates and their assist for New York Metropolis’s newly elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Showing on “The Axios Present”, Karp questioned the price of elite schooling in comparison with sensible, hands-on expertise valued in different components of the nation.
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“I believe the common Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is extremely irritated that their schooling just isn’t that beneficial,” Karp mentioned.
“And the particular person down the road who is aware of how one can drill for oil and fuel, who’s moved to Texas, has a extra beneficial occupation. And I believe that annoys the f— out of those folks,” he added.
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Co-Founder and CEO for Palantir Applied sciences Alex Karp speaks onstage throughout Jacob Helberg on the Hill & Valley Discussion board 2025 on April 30, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Jemal Countess/Getty Photographs for Jacob Helberg / Getty Photographs)
Karp’s feedback got here shortly after Mamdani, a progressive Democrat and former state meeting member from Queens, was elected as New York’s first socialist mayor in almost a century.
Mamdani’s election victory was pushed by a robust grassroots motion of scholars.
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New York Metropolis Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani holds a press convention on the Unisphere within the Queens borough of New York Metropolis, on Nov. 5, 2025. (Kylie Cooper/Reuters / Reuters)
Since co-founding Palantir in 2003, Karp has change into one among Silicon Valley’s most outspoken and philosophically pushed executives.
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Below his management, the information analytics firm has developed in depth partnerships with U.S. authorities and protection businesses whereas sustaining a definite public voice on problems with governance and know-how ethics.