In Alex Karp's World, Palantir Is the Underdog

WIRED 

My parents didn't go to college, but his father was a pediatrician, Jewish American. His mother was an artist that still is an artist, and she's African American. So he is Black and Jewish parentage. He is dyslexic, and that's a big part of his identity. And when we talked about going to Central High School, which is kind of a magnet school, it's all academic, and it draws from all over the city.