Alex Karp rings the alarm for salespeople, saying Palantir's teams crushed earnings with a 'miniscule and shrinking' head count

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the company operates with a "miniscule and shrinking" sales team. John Lamparski/Getty Images Palantir posted $1.1 billion in profit last quarter, its biggest ever quarter financially. Karp said the profits were achieved with a "miniscule and shrinking" sales team. The sales team may be shrinking, but Palantir added nearly 500 employees overall in 2025. Palantir CEO Alex Karp took a victory lap over the company's explosive growth, saying it managed to boost its commercial business using a "miniscule and shrinking" sales team. In the shareholder letter accompanying Monday's second-quarter results, Karp said it was another case of Palantir ignoring the norms of growing a business. "On a quarter-by-quarter basis, our US commercial business grew 28%.