Alex Karp Has Money and Power. So What Does He Want?

Palantir does not do business with China, Russia or other countries that are opposed to the West. Mr. Thiel said the company tries to work with “more allied” and “less corrupt” governments, noting dryly that aside from their ideological stances, “with corrupt countries, you never get paid.”“We have a consistently pro-Western view that the West has a superior way of living and organizing itself, especially if we…