Palantir CEO Alex Karp says one of his aims when building the controversial spy‑tech company was to "power the West to its obvious innate superiority." Speaking to investment analysts following Q4 results, Karp reckoned the founders and early employees had taken a "long bet over decades" in Palantir's positioning. He said the company assumed that if it built the products its partners – particularly those in the West and the US – ought to build, rather than what they said they wanted to build or ...