>> charlie: welcome to the broadcast, tonight alexander karp, cofounder and ceo of palantir technologies, a the silicon valley company consulting with the government in the battle against terrorism. >> and what we do is we use what legal scholars call predicate based search so we would look at you and then we would go out and say oh there is are lots of different things in your life that may be indicative of someone involved in bad behavior, but it would als alsoe very clear how the government looked at you, it wouldn't be a wide net cast into a sea of data that brings back all of our, all of the innocent citizens that are touched by that net, it would be a very precise, very precise operation and each step in that operation is documented. >> and also from silicon valley the race to produce electric cars we tawld with elon tusk, the ceo of tesla motors. >> we are not paying for the cost of the co2 conzen inflation the ocean and atmosphere and not paying for all of these auxiliary wars and the other things at the gas pumps, you effectively have a sudsy difficult taking place at the gas pu

>> well, the se reason iot involvedn palantir technologies, i was really passionate about t issues and i was largy wasn't putting money ahead of what i thought wasimportant. some of the ideas i dealt with were quite important, what does it mean to ow something,hat does it mean to mmunicate it? what is the fouation of western siety? can we participate as cizens in how -- i was very passionate amot thedeas, just likei am passionate about my business, pantir. >> andlso aboutnti-semitism and otr issues thatou thought needed to be written about and discussed? >> i published widely on both techcal issues, kind of issues involving the convergence of neophilosophy and fld and on freud and on civiliberties on anytng anyone would ld which is what you do when you are an aspiring acamic with an interest in writing, andhen i migrated io a busine context. >> charlie: and what cause you do that? >> well, you know, the interesting thing about acadea it is more interesting to e people in it than it is to anyone else, you know, d the impact -- >> charlie: i know. >> you end upwriting about small this th