With Gen z with a hard battle faces on today’s labor market and many hills of hills of Student loan debtA growing number of young people has admitted that a persecution of a degree It may have been a worthless undertaking – and some managing directors agree.
In fact, TOP employer no longer talks about degrees, the great place to work CEO Michael Bush. previously told Assets. “You talk about skills.”
Now Alex KarpThe Palantir CEO is the youngest Exec, which publicly questions the value of traditional school education.
“If you have not gone to school or have gone to a school that is not that great, or you went to Harvard, Princeton or Yale, you are a Palantirian case when you came to Palantir – you don’t take care of the other stuff,” said Karp during the loss of profit on Monday.
The 57-year-old added that his company builds up a new registration information “separately from class or background”.
“This is far from the best testimony in technology. If you come to Palantir, your career is set,” he said.
Palantir’s hot stripes are thanks to workers who “want to” bend the arch of history “
Palantir In the last quarter, sales of $ 1 billion or $ 48% compared to the previous year. The AI Analytics Company share has now risen by almost 600% last year, and market capitalization rose by $ 12 billion yesterday. After the publication, the market capitalization was around 430 billion US dollars.
And according to Karp, the secret of her ascent was not a worker with a Bougie headquarters or the increase in Ivy League talents -it brings together a workforce that is not proud of her imagination University degree, Or lack of it.
It is a feeling that the Shyam Sankar, the Chief Technology Officer from Palantir, which has only recently taken place joined the billionaires club Thanks to the recent increase in the company value.
“We are able to attract and keep people on and motivate people who actually bend the arches of history and work on the problems that drive the results,” said Sankar about the call call.
The contempt of Palantir for existing educational methods and talent development goes beyond the talk. Karp and co -founder of Palantir Peter Thiel and Joe Lonsdale were supporters of the University of AustinA new four -year school that is proud to concentrate on freedom of speech and being.Anti-wich. “”
Assets turned to Palantir to get a comment.
Palantir wants to put on young talents – but also cuts off his workforce
Palantir is currently stopping dozens of roles throughout the company, including in the roles of product development and the US government – near several positions, especially for interns and new graduates.
Last spring, the company also established that Meritocracy FellowshipA four -month, paid internship for graduates from the high school, who may have thought about university formation. The program entry is based exclusively on “merit and academic excellence”, but applicants still need test results at Ivy League level to qualify. This includes at least 1460 on the satellite or a 33 on the ACTwhich are both above their respective 98 percent.
According to Karp, the internship was created in direct reaction to the “defects in the university mission”.
“And opaque admission standards at many American universities drove out meritocracy and excellence,” said Palantir posting. “As a result, qualified students are refused training based on subjective and flat criteria. A lack of meritocracy have become breeding areas for extremism and chaos.”
“Everything you learned about your school and college about how the world works is intellectually wrong,” added Karp CNBC in February.
Successful interns are interviewed for full -time roles. “Skip the debts,” was the posting. “Skip indoctrination. Get the Palantir degree.”
However, this young talent can be commissioned to only create programs that will eventually become lead to your replacement by AI. Karp admitted this week that he wanted to reduce his workforce by 500 employees.
“We plan to increase our income … and at the same time lower our number of people”, Karp ” told CNBC this week. “This is a crazy, efficient revolution. The aim is to achieve 10 times income and have 3,600 people. We now have 4,100.”
