- Palantir welcomes government and military contracts, while companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon have faced pushback over such deals.Palantir co-founder and CEO Alex Karp knows many tech workers in Silicon Valley have misgivings about his data mining firm's dealings with intelligence agencies and the military."You may not agree with that and, bless you, don't work here," Karp said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, during a conversation with David Rubenstein, co-chair of private equity firm The Carlyle Group.In 2020, Palantir moved its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Denver, Colorado, months after Karp complained publicly to Axios on HBO about what he called the "increasing intolerance and monoculture of Silicon Valley."Palantir, which went public on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2020, has lost more than half its value in the past year alongside a broader downturn in technology shares."