Palantir CEO Alex Karp used his quarterly shareholder letter to take aim at critics after the company beat Q3 2025 earnings estimates.

The company, named for an Elvish video conferencing system hacked by the evil Sauron in The Lord of the Rings, reported $1.2 billion in revenue for the quarter, a 63 percent increase from a year earlier.

It's the single most impressive number I think any enterprise software company has ever seen

The data analysis biz also reported $476 million in profit. Palantir's US government business grew 52 percent year-over-year to reach $486 million in revenue.

Karp took the opportunity to assail the commentariat for insufficient recognition of his company's accomplishments.

"This ascent has confounded most financial analysts and the chattering class, whose fram

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