# Alex Karp Holdings Structured map of [[Alex Karp]]'s wealth — which is, almost entirely, a function of one position: [[Palantir]] stock and the compensation attached to it. The people side is [[Alex Karp First Degree Connections]]; the company's ownership/governance picture is in [[Palantir Investors]] and [[Palantir Leadership]], not here. > Figures are as last reported in the vault (see [[Alex Karp News Log]]); stock-linked numbers move with PLTR. ## The position | Metric | Value | Note | |---|---|---| | [[Palantir]] stake | **~4.3%** of outstanding shares | The entire fortune, essentially | | Net worth | **$18B+** (2025 est.) | Almost all PLTR | | 2024 compensation | **$6.8B** ("actually paid," SEC) | Overwhelmingly stock-based | | 2024 stock surge | **+340%** | Tracks the Trump election + procurement expectations | | Peak market cap | **$424B** (early 2025) | | ## How the fortune was built Unlike Thiel (a diversified investor) or Musk (a multi-company empire), Karp's wealth is **monolithic**: he is not an engineer or a portfolio investor but the CEO whose compensation is denominated in Palantir equity. The 2024 ~340% surge — and thus the bulk of his net-worth growth — maps precisely onto the Trump election and the anticipated defense/immigration contract expansion documented in [[Alex Karp Political Donations]] and the canonical page's Trump-pivot section. ## Governance note Karp's *voting* power runs through Palantir's three-class share structure, where the founders' **Class F super-voting shares** (held with [[Peter Thiel]] and [[Stephen Cohen]]) preserve near-majority control regardless of economic dilution. That mechanism is documented in [[Palantir Leadership]] — this page covers the economic stake; the control mechanism is a company-level fact. ## Lifestyle / real assets Minimal by billionaire standards and deliberately anti-Valley: a rural compound in **New Hampshire**, tai chi, no Miami/Austin podcast circuit. The canonical page treats his California-exodus posture as *institutional* ([[Palantir]]'s 2020 move to Denver), not personal. ## See Also - [[Alex Karp]] — canonical biography - [[Palantir]] · [[Palantir Investors]] · [[Palantir Leadership]] · [[Palantir Dossier]] - [[Alex Karp Political Donations]] · [[Alex Karp First Degree Connections]] - [[Alex Karp Dossier]]