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  30. Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden (arctictoday.com)
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Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden

21 pointsby 21m agoarctictoday.com
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9m agoHN ↗

Assuming this is for conservation, it's hard to find reasons this is a bad thing.

5m agoHN ↗

He's probably buying it so that he can ski through miles of virgin forest with his Norwegian bodyguards. I hate this weirdo but he's probably not going to do much to the landscape.

6m agoHN ↗

Why would Alex Karp randomly buy Swedish forest for conservation?

4m agoHN ↗

Skiing. He arranges his life around Nordic skiing to an incredible degree.

3m agoHN ↗

Trying to buy himself back into heaven, like Bill Gates did. We only have the article's quotation for evidence, but it does say:

Karp made the purchase through his newly registered company Cladonia Skog AB. The chairman of Cladonia told the Swedish newspaper that the land provides valuable habitat for wildlife and space for recreation.

8m agoHN ↗

$600/acre for timber forest???

I had no idea Sweden was this cheap. Why wouldn't he drop $22mm on this...

4m agoHN ↗

Guessing it's more expensive if you're buying less, otherwise I kinda want to buy 4 acres.