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At Stanford, he met Peter Thiel and in 2003, they alongside three others co-founded Palantir.","In 2025, his net worth exceeded $18 billion, making him among the wealthiest 200 people in the world as reported by Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and Time magazine named him on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people of that year."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"2 October 1967","date":"1967-10-02"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19560940#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"New York City","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19560940#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19560940#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"entrepreneur","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131524"},{"text":"merchant","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215536"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19560940#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Haverford College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q579611"},{"text":"Goethe University Frankfurt","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50662"},{"text":"Stanford University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41506"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19560940#P69"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Time 100","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q604370","date":"2025"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19560940#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19560940"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Alex Karp born?","a":"Alex Karp was born on 2 October 1967 in New York City."},{"q":"Where did Alex Karp study?","a":"Alex Karp was educated at Haverford College, Goethe University Frankfurt, Stanford University."}],"related":[{"name":"Abigail Johnson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abigail-johnson"},{"name":"Alice Walton","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alice-walton"},{"name":"Arte Moreno","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arte-moreno"},{"name":"Arthur Blank","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arthur-blank"},{"name":"Baiju Bhatt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/baiju-bhatt"},{"name":"Barry Diller","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barry-diller"},{"name":"Ben Chestnut","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ben-chestnut"},{"name":"Bill Ackman","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-ackman"},{"name":"Bill Gates","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-gates"},{"name":"Bob Parsons","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bob-parsons"},{"name":"Bobby Murphy","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bobby-murphy"},{"name":"Brad Jacobs","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/brad-jacobs"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/alex-karp-464e1ab7c8.jpg","width":500,"height":626,"license":"CC BY 2.0","credit":"UK Government","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alex_Karp_attends_AI_Summit_(53302457013)_4-5_ratio.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Alex Karp","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q19560940","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19560940","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Alex Karp attends AI Summit (53302457013) 4-5 ratio.jpg by UK Government (CC BY 2.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alex_Karp_attends_AI_Summit_(53302457013)_4-5_ratio.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Alex Karp, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Alex Karp attends AI Summit (53302457013) 4-5 ratio.jpg — UK Government, CC BY 2.0.","cite":"\"Alex Karp\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/alex-karp. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:28:20Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/alex-karp","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/alex-karp","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/alex-karp?lang=ne"}}