"Palantir CEO Alex Karp said being a billionaire has its perks, including giving his childhood dog a final resting place closer to home. "One of the crazy things about having resources is you can do things that mean a lot to you," Karp told podcaster Molly O'Shea during an interview that was posted on Tuesday. Karp said he secured an agreement that allowed him to exhume the remains of his childhood dog, Rosita, from the Philadelphia home where he grew up."
"The Palantir CEO said that "through all sorts of ways," he got in touch with the person who bought the house, "and the person was very generous and, for lots of reasons, agreed to have me exhume their whole yard." Karp's efforts to secure Rosita's remains are also part of a series of anecdotes journalist Michael Steinberger wrote about in "The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State," a new biography about the Palantir CEO that came out earlier this month."
Alex Karp said having financial resources allows him to do things that mean a lot to him, and he used that ability to exhume and rebury his childhood dog, Rosita. He secured an agreement to exhume Rosita's remains from the Philadelphia home where he grew up by contacting the person who bought the house. The new owners, university professors, initially balked but ultimately agreed, and Karp subsequently made a donation to the university where they taught. Karp described Rosita as "more like a human than a dog." His net worth is estimated at over $17 billion, rising roughly $10 billion since January due to Palantir's stock performance.
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