#alex-karp

#alex-karp

"If you are massively dyslexic, you cannot play a playbook," Karp said at the New York Times DealBook Summit. "There is no playbook a dyslexic can master. And therefore we learn to think freely."

For the past few decades, Alex Karp has stayed largely under the radar, but a new biography, reveals him to be a complex, thoughtful, often contradictory personality, with a background that explains many of his insecurities. Steve Rose profiled the fitness-obsessed billionaire tech leader whose business is at the heart of many governments, including the US, where its AI-powered data-analysis technology is fuelling the deportations being carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Pentagon's unmanned drone programme, police departments' (allegedly racist) profiling of potential criminals and much more besides.