Haves and have nots, Europe's big problems, and why Palantir is too busy in the US to help much - CEO Alex Karp gets bombastic with the tough love

‘What bombastic numbers?’, you may well ask. Well, the kind of bombastic numbers trotted out by Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, who boasts of his firm’s latest quarterly data:

This company grew 93% in the US...with a Rule of 127 and 70% aggregate growth, 93% growth in the US, you really have to look at this and the numbers speak volumes that we are an N-of-1 category of our own, and we are doing things unlike any other company has done.

If you were a company sitting in Continental Europe or in Canada or in any other similarly situated country and you grew your whole company 20% and you had a Rule of 50, you would be one of the premier companies in your nation, if not in your continent. And we also did this while supporting in critical manner, some of the most interesting, intricate unusual operations ...