Palantir CEO Alex Karp is sick and tired of his critics. That much is clear. But during the Yahoo Finance Invest Conference Thursday, he escalated his counteroffensive, aimed squarely at analysts, journalists, and political commentators who have long attacked the company as a symbol of an encroaching surveillance state , or as overvalued .

Karp’s message: They were wrong then, they’re wrong now, and they’ve cost everyday Americans real money.

“How often have you been right in the past?” Karp said when asked why some analysts still insist Palantir’s valuation is too high.

He said he thinks negative commentary from traditional finance people—and “their minions,” the analysts—has repeatedly failed to grasp how the company operates, and failed to grasp what Palantir’s retail base sa

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