Entrepreneurship | Business | Startup Culture on Instagram: "Alex Karp co-founded Palantir in 2003 with Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, and a small group of engineers. He believed enterprise software was the need of the hour for governments after 9/11, when connecting data fast could mean saving lives. They built multiple systems, but the most defining was “Gotham”— a platform that allowed U.S. intelligence and defense agencies to track patterns, analyze threats, and support counterterrorism investig