Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, has never learned how to drive a car. 🚗😂
And his explanation is surprisingly simple:
“I was too broke, and then too rich.”
Karp has explained that when he was younger, he didn't have enough money to own a car or prioritize learning to drive. But as his career took off and he became enormously wealthy, the problem completely flipped.
Instead of needing a car, he could simply have someone else drive him.
It’s a pretty unusual journey—from not being able to afford a car to becoming the CEO of one of the world's most valuable technology companies, while still never getting behind the wheel himself. 🤯
It also highlights how dramatically someone's circumstances can change over the course of a career.
For most people, learning to drive is almost a rite of passage. You get a license, buy or borrow a car, and eventually driving becomes something you barely think about.
For Karp, apparently, neither phase ever happened.
And there's something oddly funn...
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