Palantir CEO rips Silicon Valley, accuses it of selling out America and failing to protect the count

[Sanguine]

Key Points

    Alex Karp, CEO of Silicon Valley-based Palantir, is slamming the tech community for what he considers a breach of its social contract with America.

    Big Tech is no longer delivering on its value proposition, the co-founder of the secretive data miner says.

    “Silicon Valley is creating micro communities that break the consensus of larger society” while profiting from things that make the nation less safe, Karp says.

Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO of secretive Silicon Valley data miner Palantir, is slamming the tech community for what he considers a breach of its social contract with America.

Big Tech is no longer delivering on its value proposition, he said.

“The reason why people put up with crazy looking people that are doing their thing in a different way is because we have historically delivered either jobs or national security,” Karp told CNBC on Wednesday. “People understood the value of what we’re doing.”...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/palantir-ceo-rips-silicon-valley-peers-for-sowing-seeds-of-division.html

[Bill Cipher]

Palantir makes software the government uses to spy on people, including Americans.  Perhaps he should practice what he preaches. 

[Sanguine]

Palantir makes software the government uses to spy on people, including Americans.  Perhaps he should practice what he preaches.

That's why this is a big story.