Alex Karp, the CEO of defense contractor Palantir, has been on the offensive lately. The billionaire with a penchant for making off-the-cuff remarks has sought to tamp down ongoing criticism and doubts about his firm, which is not only playing a pivotal role in the current presidential administration but has been having a very good year, stock-wise.

The most recent example of this took place on Thursday, when Karp appeared at the Yahoo Finance Invest Conference. There, he laid into critics who claimed that his company, which has been helping the Trump administration with shadowy missions at home and abroad, was overvalued. “By my reckoning, Palantir is one of the only companies where the average American bought—and the average sophisticated American sold,” Karp said.

He also seemed to

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