Palantir CEO Alex Karp Slams the Standard SaaS Playbook: 'Like a Venereal Disease'
eliano · x · 2026-11-11
Palantir CEO Alex Karp called out the common SaaS playbook taught to students:
"Build a product that's not very valuable to the client where they're addicted to it, then hire lots of salespeople and get lots of people to buy it against their will… It's like a venereal disease."
The remarks attack sales-driven, low-value SaaS growth models, consistent with Karp's stance on building genuinely valuable software.
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