# Alex Karp First Degree Connections The **full directly-connected map** for [[Alex Karp]] — every person, company, and institution with a documented first-degree tie, annotated by the *type* of tie. Broader than [[Alex Karp Inner Circle]]; this is the whole one-hop neighborhood. > "First degree" = a tie Karp holds personally (co-founder, employer, customer, intellectual, documented associate). Company-level relationships (board, investors, contracts) live in the [[Palantir Dossier]], not here. ## People — by tie type | Person | Tie type | Note | |---|---|---| | [[Peter Thiel]] | Co-founder / 30-yr partner | Stanford Law; [[Palantir]] chairman | | [[Stephen Cohen]] · [[Joe Lonsdale]] · [[Nathan Gettings]] | Co-founders | [[Palantir]] (2003) | | [[Shyam Sankar]] | Operational #2 | Palantir CTO | | [[Jürgen Habermas]] | Doctoral advisor | [[Frankfurt School]]; the interpretive key | | [[Elon Musk]] | Ally | DOGE endorsement; [[DOGE-Palantir Nexus]] | | [[David Sacks]] | Network peer | PayPal-Mafia-adjacent | | [[Palmer Luckey]] | Defense-tech peer | The enthusiastic-warrior counterpart | | [[Stephen Miller]] | Customer-side architect | ICE policy Palantir's tools serve | | [[Mohammed bin Salman]] | Gulf counterpart | 2018 Silicon Valley tour briefing | ## Company (the canonical home is the Palantir Dossier) Karp's defining entity is [[Palantir]]; its leadership, ownership, and contracts are documented in the [[Palantir Dossier]] — [[Palantir Leadership]], [[Palantir Investors]], and the contract ledger. Karp's personal stake is in [[Alex Karp Holdings]]. Products: [[Palantir Gotham]], [[Palantir ICE Systems]], [[Project Maven]], [[Palantir TITAN]], [[Palantir NHS Federated Data Platform]]. ## Institutions & counterparts | Entity | Tie | |---|---| | CIA / [[In-Q-Tel]] | Palantir's founding incubator ($2M seed) | | [[ACLU]] | Public critic / counterpart on surveillance | | UK NHS | [[Palantir NHS Federated Data Platform]] (£330M) | | [[Frankfurt School]] | Intellectual lineage | ## See Also - [[Alex Karp Inner Circle]] — the trusted core subset - [[Alex Karp Holdings]] — the personal stake - [[Palantir Dossier]] — the company-level network and ledgers - [[Palantir Mafia]] · [[PayPal Mafia to Pentagon Pipeline]] - [[Alex Karp Dossier]]