Yet another Hacker News

Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden

31 points davidja 21 minutes ago 17 comments

mertleee 9 minutes ago | parent

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

mcarper826 8 minutes ago | parent

agreed

fnordpiglet 7 minutes ago | parent

This is where he will build 50 silos

xhevahir 5 minutes ago | parent

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.

mahboi 6 minutes ago | parent

Why would Alex Karp randomly buy Swedish forest for conservation?

unreal6 4 minutes ago | parent

It is well known he loves to nordic ski

https://fortune.com/well/2023/02/03/billionaire-palantir-ceo...

xhevahir 4 minutes ago | parent

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

mahboi 4 minutes ago | parent

Ok that makes a lot more sense

fhdkweig 3 minutes ago | parent

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.

bpodgursky 8 minutes ago | parent

$600/acre for timber forest???

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

mahboi 4 minutes ago | parent

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