Palantir Technologies Inc. PLTR Chief Executive

What Alex Karp says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Alex Karp

Alex Karp

Chief Executive Officer · Palantir Technologies Inc.

Co-founder and CEO since 2003. Holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. from Goethe University Frankfurt. Known for his unconventional leadership style and focus on building software for government and commercial institutions.

What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
34/ 70
Level 2Aligned

Karp owns about 2% of Palantir Technologies Inc., worth $11.02B at the last close.

SEC filings
100
Stake 58.9M reported shares ≈ 2.3% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 20/35
Founder Not assessed — whether they founded the company has not been researched Not assessed
Tenure No start date on record, so tenure scores nothing 0/10
Track record Not assessed — their prior companies have not been researched Not assessed
Direction Exercise-and-sell — 1.4M shares ($206.1M) sold, all covered by option exercises; the underlying stake is flat 4/15
Discipline No late Form 4s in 100 filings 10/10

Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 58.9M Every lot on the person's own filings, as of Aug 20, 2026
Last open-market trade Sale · $86.1M Aug 20, 2026 · 492,348 shares at $174.79 avg · under a 10b5-1 plan
Paper trail On time No Form 4 filed outside the two-day window; form 144 flagged below
Reported Palantir Technologies Inc. shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-08-20
020M40M60M 202120222023202420252026 Aug 2026: net +482,652 shares across 4 movements (largest: exercise +975,000)May 2026: net +577,256 shares across 4 movements (largest: exercise +975,000)Feb 2026: net +481,975 shares across 2 movements (largest: convert +493,025) 58.9M

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Class B Common StockDirect52,492,901
Class A Common StockDirect6,432,258
Reported as of 2026-08-2058,925,159
Held directly
100%
Vehicles
None
Share classes
2
Last filing
Aug 24, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 10 events folded from 69 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
Aug 20, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative across 2 lots · Class A Common Stock +492,348 — —
Aug 20, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 10 lots, $172.65–$176.31 · Class A Common Stock −492,348 $174.79 avg $86.1M under a 10b5-1 plan
Aug 20, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots · Class B Common Stock +975,000 — —
Aug 20, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative across 2 lots · Class B Common Stock −492,348 — —
May 20, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative · Class A Common Stock +397,744 — —
May 20, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 5 lots, $132.95–$136.61 · Class A Common Stock −397,744 $136.04 avg $54.1M under a 10b5-1 plan
May 20, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots · Class B Common Stock +975,000 — —
May 20, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative · Class B Common Stock −397,744 — —
Feb 20, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative across 2 lots · Class A Common Stock +493,025 — —
Feb 20, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 10 lots, $132.01–$135.73 · Class A Common Stock −493,025 $133.78 avg $66.0M under a 10b5-1 plan
Every issuer Alex Karp files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. This page Chief Executive Officer 59M
2026-08-20		 — —

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail

100 filings under CIK 0001823951 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q2 2026 Aug 3, 2026 Karp used his Q2 remarks to argue that the whole per-token model of selling AI is a transfer of the customer's advantage to the seller, and that Palantir's alternative — customers owning the data, the logic, the actions and increasingly the weights themselves — is what produced 93% aggregate growth and 149% U.S. commercial growth. He traced the position back to the company's early government work, where being fully aligned with the customer rather than extracting from them was, he said, a rejection of how Silicon Valley taught software companies to sell. The commitment he made out loud was the one the guide does not contain: he is driving the business to grow at or above the U.S. commercial rate for the next 18 months, and is hunting for technically capable partners because Palantir cannot meet the demand alone. Read the call · 7 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

10 recorded appearances

2026

Interview CNBC Squawk Box · Jul 1, 2026 · 20 min

Watch CNBC's full interview with Palantir CEO Alex Karp

Karp said 'something has gone completely wrong' with how AI is sold, relaying that enterprise customers pay for tokens that create no value while their IP flows to the labs, and calling frontier-model pricing a 'wealth tax' on business. He also discussed the new Nvidia partnership.

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Talk World Economic Forum · Jan 20, 2026 · 35 min

Conversation with Alex Karp, CEO and Co-Founder, Palantir Technologies | WEF Annual Meeting 2026

On the Davos mainstage with BlackRock's Larry Fink, Karp argued AI is stress-testing states, militaries and markets simultaneously, and that the technology is redistributing power toward whoever can deploy it operationally rather than whoever trains the biggest model.

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2025

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