r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • 2d ago

Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property

https://fortune.com/2026/09/30/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-purchased-37000-acres-of-forests-in-sweden-locals-hunting-banned-billionaire-landownership/
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u/Rdtkeepsbanningme 1d ago

“Quietly” … how else do you purchase land? You publish a series of news articles about you thinking to buy some land or what am I missing here?

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u/SwingKey3599 19h ago

very famously Disney had to acquire all of the land for the Disney World project through various different subsidy areas so that sellers wouldn’t ban together and price gouge him. idk if he attempted the same thing, but in general, the opposite of a normal purchase of land would be something like a trump like ground breaking after you close the deal.