Palantir CEO Alex Karp talks so much that you’d think that he just likes the sound of his own voice—though you wonder if he actually hears what he’s saying.

The subject of the recently published Michael Steinberger book “ The Philosopher in the Valley ” popped onto The Axios Show this week to talk about all kinds of things, in part because it seems like the wheels in his brain turn faster than his mouth can get the words out. But it’s some of his clearly prepared and repeated lines that are the most eye-roll-inducing.

For instance, when asked by Axios’s Mike Allen, “What the hell is Palantir?” Karp answered, “We are growing the GDP of the US. We are the part of the GDP… of the AI economy where things are useful.” Okay! That is the description of a company, for sure.

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