Palantir CEO says it's pioneering an antiwar movement – while happily accepting defense dollars

Alex Karp, CEO of US spy-tech company Palantir, used this week's historic US midterm election results to claim an unlikely mantle for a military software supplier: pioneer of an antiwar movement.

Palantir's Q3 revenue rose 96 percent year-on-year to $2.31 billion, although its shares fell 8 percent following the results, which it reported on Tuesday as US voters were delivering a resounding defeat for Republicans in the voting booth. For Karp, the figures represented "the reality that this moment has become a real focal point of understanding" and might help explain "what is happening in our society."

From the CEO's perspective, they not only reflected the company's financial performance, but also its overall "mission."

"That mission reason is we support your alpha [above average performance], we support your sovereignty. We support the war fighter. We are delighted that we can support the war fighter even more because we're making so much money. …