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Alex Karp on why he left California (fashions in departure) - C C - Sep 16, 2024
Alexander Caedmon Karp: An American billionaire businessman, and the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. As of September 2024, his estimated net worth is US$4.1 billion. Alexander Caedmon Karp was born on October 2, 1967, in New York City, the son of a Jewish clinical pediatrician father and an African American artist mother. Karp was raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Central High School in 1985. He has said he struggled with dyslexia from an early age.
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MAHER: Could you do something here in the state of California? [...] We could really use someone...
KARP: You have to want help to get it.
MAHER: I mean, you left California [moved the headquarters], like another guy who's involved in some of this kind of stuff, which is Elon Musk.
KARP: Yeah, we were the two biggest companies to leave California early. [...] I feel like I owe California a great deal of gratitude. I went to school here, I built a company here.
Obviously, California has gone in the past way too far on this kind of hyper-Woke [policymaking]. We can get nothing done. But it doesn't have to work, because we pretend it works. Because of the "we're good people" thing, and um, you know...
https://youtu.be/Phpn3XdIn7Q
Canada's DND spent $32k for study on how space exploration is sexist and racist
https://youtu.be/PZahFx-_23k
INTRO: Sun political columnist Brian Lilley talks with Canadian Tax Payers Federation’s Kris Sims on how Canada’s Department of National Defence spent $32,000 on study about space being sexist and racist.
https://youtu.be/PZahFx-_23k
RE: Alex Karp on why he left California (fashions in departure) - Yazata - Sep 17, 2024
It isn't just Elon and Palantir. Larry Ellison took Oracle to Austin Texas before Elon moved his operations there. (Larry and Elon are friends, so he might be one of those who put the idea in Elon's head.) Oracle is one of the world's largest database software companies, along with Germany's SAP.