# Alex Karp — "some people are going to get their heads cut off" > [!quote] "Disruption, at the end of the day, exposes things that aren't working. There will be ups and downs. There's a revolution. Some people are going to get their heads cut off. We're expecting to see really unexpected things and to win." > — Alex Karp, Palantir Q4 2024 earnings call, February 3, 2025 ## Context Asked on the same February 2025 earnings call about [[Elon Musk]]'s DOGE initiative, [[Alex Karp]] embraced the "revolution" in government and predicted that "some people are going to get their heads cut off" — framing the gutting of federal agencies as a cleansing disruption that would be "good for Americans and very good for Palantir." Palantir was, by then, materially entangled with DOGE through embedded engineers and federal-data access (see [[DOGE-Palantir Nexus]]). ## Why this matters The metaphor — a guillotine for the administrative state — comes from the CEO whose company stood to profit directly from that state's "disruption." It is a candid statement of the defense-tech right's appetite for tearing down democratic institutions, voiced not by a fringe theorist but by the head of a $400B+ contractor describing his own customer. Coupled with his "kill them" line from the same call, it shows Karp's philosophical restraint dropping away precisely when the political winds turn in Palantir's favor. ## Verification - **Reporting:** [Yahoo/Fortune](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-says-025521226.html); [The New Republic](https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power); [Sherwood News](https://sherwood.news/tech/the-weirdest-best-unhinged-quotes-from-palantirs-q4-earnings-call/). - **Status:** Verbatim, undisputed; public earnings call. ## Related quotes - [[Alex Karp - scare enemies and kill them]] — same call. - [[Curtis Yarvin - RAGE plan]] — the "retire all government employees" theory Karp's "revolution" enacts.