Who has never mouth-pipetted an organic solvent should cast the first separatory funnel
Michal Krompiec
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Scientist & research manager. Currently Tech Staff Member at cusp.ai. Interested in computing, physics & chemistry, history and politics. Opinions are mine and may not reflect the position of my employer.
![“Through a friend, he was introduced to Palantir, and after several rounds of interviews, he flew to Palo Alto to meet with Karp. As soon as Mosley took a seat, Karp began reciting a fiery speech that Oswald Mosley gave in 1939 demanding that Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. (“Our generation shall not die like rats in Polish holes. They shall not die but shall live to see above their heads the English sky, to feel beneath their feet the English soil, and to enjoy the fair English countryside….”) Karp didn’t just repeat a few sentences; he went on for minutes, reproducing the speech from memory. Mosley sat in stunned silence. When Karp finished, he executed a few tai chi moves and walked out of the room without saying goodbye. A shaken Mosley figured that his family’s dark past had torpedoed him again. But it hadn’t: he was hired and ended up running Palantir’s UK business. (A few years after the interview, Karp was in London, where he met with Mosley and a retired British military officer who was consulting for Palantir. Karp asked this person if he was aware of Mosley’s background. He said that he was[…]”
Excerpt From
The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State
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