# Alex Karp Inner Circle The **tight, trusted core** around [[Alex Karp]] — his 30-year co-founder, the [[Palantir]] founding team, and the executives who run the company with him. This is the small inner ring; the fuller directly-connected map lives in [[Alex Karp First Degree Connections]]. > Roster, not biographies. The full company board/executive roster lives in [[Palantir Leadership]] — this page is the *personal* core, not the org chart. ## The 30-year partnership | Person | Tie | |---|---| | [[Peter Thiel]] | Stanford Law classmate; Palantir co-founder and chairman; the capital + network half of the partnership for 30+ years | ## Palantir co-founders (2003) | Person | Role | |---|---| | [[Stephen Cohen]] | Co-founder; President; Class F voting bloc | | [[Joe Lonsdale]] | Co-founder; now [[8VC]]; [[Dialog Society]] | | [[Nathan Gettings]] | Co-founder | ## Company leadership | Person | Role | |---|---| | [[Shyam Sankar]] | CTO & EVP; public defense-tech advocate; the operational #2 | Full board + executive roster: [[Palantir Leadership]]. ## Policy & customer-side allies | Person | Tie | |---|---| | [[Stephen Miller]] | Immigration-policy architect whose agenda Palantir's ICE tools serve | | [[Elon Musk]] | DOGE endorsement; [[DOGE-Palantir Nexus]] | | [[Palmer Luckey]] | Defense-tech peer (the enthusiastic-warrior counterpart) | ## How to use this page vs. its neighbors - **This page** = Karp's *personal* trusted core. - [[Palantir Leadership]] = the company's board/executive roster (the org chart). - [[Alex Karp First Degree Connections]] = everyone directly connected, including looser ties. - [[Palantir Mafia]] = the broader Palantir-alumni network. ## See Also - [[Alex Karp]] — canonical biography - [[Peter Thiel]] · [[Palantir]] · [[Palantir Leadership]] · [[Palantir Dossier]] - [[Alex Karp First Degree Connections]] - [[Alex Karp Dossier]]